Girls in Uniform

In the spring of 1914, the recently orphaned Manuela (15) arrives to an all-girls boarding school for future soldiers’ mothers of the Prussian empire. Bold, but still new to the standards of the place, Manuela has to learn to navigate a martial hierarchy among the noble students. Soon enough, she finds a kindred spirit in the gentle class teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg (28), who is hiding her true self behind a cold demeanor. She makes Manuela believe that she can be so much more than a wife – it’s the prosperous 1910s, anything is possible, is it not?

A tender, forbidden love blossoms between the two young women, challenging this fortress of patriarchy maintained here only by women, with unexpected fatal consequences.

In the spring of 1914, the recently orphaned Manuela (15) arrives to an all-girls boarding school for future soldiers’ mothers of the Prussian empire. Bold, but still new to the standards of the place, Manuela has to learn to navigate a martial hierarchy among the noble students. Soon enough, she finds a kindred spirit in the gentle class teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg (28), who is hiding her true self behind a cold demeanor. She makes Manuela believe that she can be so much more than a wife – it’s the prosperous 1910s, anything is possible, is it not? A tender, forbidden love blossoms between the two young women, challenging this fortress of patriarchy maintained here only by women, with unexpected fatal consequences.