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Like 'Mädchen in Uniform' this strange mix of drama and comedy dealt with the tribulations of school teachers, and starred a top box-office draw in the lead (Ruth Leuwerik vs. Lilli Palmer), but otherwise they differed widely. Both the star and the film were sensitive, delicate and poignant.

Miss Leuwerik gives perhaps the most subtle performance of her career. She is wise, womanly, compassionate, consummately eloquent in scene after scene. The picture is beautifully photographed, catching the overall atmosphere of the rigid school system and the small changes made by Miss Leuwerik as a modern and open-minded teacher in an enchanting bland of colors and shading. Among other things, this cinematic treasure is a mature study of the refusal to surrender the heart's deepest hopes to conformist, muddled life-patterns.

A perfect bland of fine, sympathetic acting and able craftsmanship, this film has the strange knack of looking fresh and new with each viewing.

The Munich school at which the movie was made is simply fantastic! It shows the the state of the art concerning architecture in the late 50s in Germany. The film itself? Well, it would have been useful for the director to decide between light comedy and deep drama. To start with comedy and then turning into drama is no problem, but to force the situation to death and despair, and then turning from one minute to the other to really dull slapstick, without explanation, without resolving the drama, that's simply bad! So you have lots of unexplained story lines and a plot which slightly remembers of "Tea and Sympathy" with Deborah Kerr (perhaps the perfect "twin" of Ruth Leuwerik in look and attitude), with also ended quite annoying, but at least was a powerful drama. Enjoy the architecture!

Where can I buy this movie? I searched all over the internet but could not find