Date and Time
- Saturday, Nov 14, 2026 4:30pm
Details
Intro by film historian David Stenn
At a Swiss school for girls, Christa, the sheltered daughter of a wealthy industrialist learns she is pregnant as her emotionally remote father, unaware of her condition, forbids marriage. Facing the disgrace and exile of unwed motherhood, she chooses suicide and plans a final night of freedom. Kay Johnson (mother of actor James Cromwell) gives a memorable performance as the school’s stern athletic instructor whose efforts to break Christa will carry faint echoes of MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (1931). Unseen since its original release and never available on television, home video or streaming, this is a major pre-Code rediscovery — an unexpectedly frank portrait of the cruel social penalties imposed on women.
