Word: maedchen
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...Maedchen in Uniform", foreign film sensation of the year is again in Boston, this time at the Fine Arts Theatre. If you are lucky enough to have seen it once, a second time is well worth-while; if you missed it in the fall, now is the time...
...picture is something of a monotone because it uses the German institution for the education of Prussian army officers' daughters as the only background for the whole film. With the faithfulness of attention to detail which characterizes German cinema production. "Maedchen in Uniform" is alive with genuine emotion and a well-defined and exacting plot structure. There are many touches of the theatre from the entrance of the orphan Manuela into the school to the closing scene in which Fraulein von Beruburg is chosen spontaneously as the natural leader by the acclaim of the children for the understanding and gentleness...
...film was badly chosen; it should have had a simple plot about a man and a woman and love which came at last, after all gangsters had been removed by the heroic physical efforts of the man. When critics read a Freudian significance into the modern immediacy of "Maedchen in Uniform"--where such interpretation has about as much place as in Memorial Church lower, one can hardly except a Cambridge audience to appreciate fully "Barberina", which demands a knowledge of German art and history, as well as of the language. The response to the film would have been warm despite...
Evidently planned to cash in on the reputation of "Maedchen in Uniform," "Kadetten," the current German film at the Fine Arts, sets a bit of not-quite-nice love against the background of strict Prussian discipline of a military training school; but the result falls far short of the merit of its model...
Girls in Uniform (by Christa Winsloe; Sidney Phillips, producer). First it was a novel, then a play, then a film. Now Playwright Winsloe's Maedchen in Uniform is to be seen in a translated version of its second phase, not nearly so satisfactory as its third. Without cinematic evidence of the many little rigors in the Prussian school for officers' daughters to which Manuela is sent, Manuela's adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck...