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Girls in Distress

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Original title

Jeunes filles en détresse

Year

1939

Running time

90 min.

Country

France

Director

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Screenwriter

Tristan Bernard, Jean Bernard-Luc, Albrecht Joseph, Christa Winsloe. Novel: Peter Quinn

Cast

Music

Ralph Erwin

Cinematography

Michel Kelber (B&W)

Producer

Globe-Films

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). When they become aware that they neglect their daughter they send her to a boarding school for girls, impeccably run by Mme Vuillard. There Jacqueline meets her new friends who are, nearly all, the children of divorced parents.They all found a league against divorce they name Licodipa.When it is the turn of Jacqueline's parents to split up, and when Margot, Jacqueline's best friend, attempts to kill herself, distress sets in among the girls of the institution...

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Girls in Distress

1939

Georg Wilhelm Pabst