Mädchen in Uniform - BLU-RAY

Based on Christa Winsloe's play InchGestern und Heute,Inch which also inspired a 1931 film version, this bold West German drama depicts the travails that lonely orphan Manuela (Romy Schneider) faces when she's sent to a strict girls' boarding school, and the anguish she feels over her forbidden attraction to a sympathetic teacher (Lilli Palmer). With Therese Giehse, Blandine Ebinger, Adelheid Seeck, Gina Albert, Sabine Sinjen. 91 min. Standard; Soundtrack German; Subtitles English; audio commentary. In German with English subtitles.

With her widowed father soldiering, teenage Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele) was packed off to a strict all-girls boarding school. The rough transition was eased by the compassion of sympathetic teacher Fräulein von Bernburg (Dorothea Wieck)... but Manuela's emerging feelings for the kind governess might lead to a shaking of the academy's foundations. Leontine Sagan's groundbreaking effort co-stars Emilia Unda, Ellen Schwanneke, Erika Mann. 98 min. Standard; Soundtrack German; Subtitles English; audio commentary. In German with English subtitles.

Director R.W. Fassbinder's final film is an erotically searing adaptation of Jean Genet's controversial novel with Brad Davis as Georges Querelle, a handsome Belgian sailor exploring the various dimensions of his sexuality at a sordid brothel in France. While both the establishment's madam (Jeanne Moreau) and his commanding officer (Franco Nero) are captivated by him, Georges walks a dangerous path that will involve him in drug trafficking and murder. With Hanno Pöschl. 104 min. Filmed in English. Widescreen; Soundtracks English Dolby Digital stereo, LPCM stereo, French LPCM stereo, German Dolby Digital stereo, LPCM stereo; Subtitles English; documentary. Region Free