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Release year: 1958

Storyline

In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love for one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.

Top credits

Directors

Géza von Radványi

Writers

Cast

Lilli Palmer — Elisabeth von Bernburg
Romy Schneider — Manuela von Meinhardis
Therese Giehse — Headmistress
Blandine Ebinger — Miss von Racket

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Did you know

• This is one of the few films, along with The Women (1939), that can boast an all-female cast.

• The carillon which rings repeatedly through the film is playing "Üb immer Treu und Redlichkeit" by Ludwig Hölty, the tune being taken from Papageno's aria "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" in W. A. Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)".

• The film could not be shot in the real school buildings because at the time they were occupied by the Soviet KGB. Only in 1994 did the Russians return the site to the Foundation.