VICTOR AND VICTORIA
Viktor und Viktoria (original title) / 1933 / comedy, musical / 1h 24min / directed by Reinhold Schünzel /
country: Germany / language: English | German with English subtitles
MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM
1931 / drama, romance / 1h 27min / directed by Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich /
country: Germany / language: German with English subtitles
MICHAEL
1924 / drama, romance / 1h 33min / directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (as Carl Th. Dreyer) /
country: Germany / language: Silent with English titles
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Produced in the final days of the Weimar Republic, this dazzling, gender-bending musical romance about a female singer posing as a man performing in drag received limited exposure in the United States, and is today best known by Blake Edwards’s 1982 remake and the 1995 Broadway production. Viewers will be delighted to discover that the original is every bit as charming and outrageous, reminiscent of the sly sex comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.
As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance. This artfully composed landmark of lesbian cinema – and an important anti-fascist film – was the first of just three films directed by Leontine Sagan.
Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer’s homoerotic classic is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time. Michael takes its place alongside Dreyer’s better known masterpieces as an unusually sensitive and decorous work of art and is one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history.
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