After being sent to a strict Prussian all-girls boarding school, Manuela is drawn out of her shell by the young and empathetic teacher Elizabeth von Bernburg. But when Manuela starts to fall in love with her kind-hearted teacher, a scandal erupts and rocks the school’s very foundation.
In Leontine Sagan’s anti-fascist masterpiece, a key film in lesbian cinema history, a girlish crush ignites a revolution. Directed and written by women—as well as featuring an all-female cast—this is a landmark work in every sense: politically radical, visually mesmerizing, and swooningly romantic.
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Jean-Jacques Jauffret, 2011, France
David Cronenberg, 2014, Canada
Ash Mayfair, 2018, Vietnam
Manuela Viegas, 1999, Portugal
Sebastián Lelio, 2013, Chile
Lisa Aschan, 2011, Sweden
Peter Greenaway, 1988, United Kingdom
Stanislav Rostotsky, 1972, Soviet Union
Pia Marais, 2007, Germany
Bertrand Mandico, 2016, France