At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
Year - 1931
Directed By - Leontine Sagan
Written By - Christa Winsloe (screenplay and play), Friedrich Dammann
Produced By - Carol Froelich, Friedrich Pflughaupt
Starring - Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedy Krilla, Hertha Thiele
Mädchen in Uniform was based on the play "Gestern und Heute" by Christa Winsloe, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was one of the first films with openly lesbian themes and this cultural expression was relatively allowed in the Weimer Era of Germany (1919-1933).
The fillm was remade twice, once in Mexico in 1951 and again in Germany in 1958.
Mädchen in Uniform - Letterboxd
Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and "New Objectivity" by Richard McCormick.