“In equal parts a landmark of queer cinema, a groundbreaking lesbian love story, and a cogent antifascist statement. Made by women who intimately understood and delighted in women, Mädchen in Uniform ...

Distinguished, though, by a rare taste, by a true and pure beauty, this picture is, in fact, that “step forward” in the movies so often heralded, catching swiftly and surely, as it does, one of the ...

Adapted by Christa Winsloe from her own play, Yesterday and Tomorrow, this was one of the earliest lesbian dramas to reach a wide audience. Shot for 55,000 DM at the Potsdam military orphanage and ...

A whispering campaign managed to get started to the effect that the picture has to do with the subject of mannish femmes. The film [from Christa Winsloe's novel The Child Manuela] really has to do ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.

Playing in MoMA’s Weimar Cinema series, this moody 1931 melodrama about a girl who falls for one of her teachers in her all-girls school is regarded by some as an early portrait of militant lesbianism ...

Like The Blue Angel (1930), another German early talkie classic in which sexual energy confronts authoritarianism, Leontine Sagan’s film contained intimations of Nazism. Foreshadowing the Hitler Youth ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.

The Brattle has resurrected another museum piece, this time in the form of a German film made in 1931. Maedchen in Uniform does have some antique interest. As the Museum of Modern Art introduction ...

Harvard’s irrepressible Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton was at it again. While Congressmen solemnly weighed the pros & cons of peacetime military training for all able-bodied young men (see U.S. AT ...