Jeunes filles en détresse

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Movie
Original title Jeunes filles en détresse
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1939
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director GW Pabst
script Christa Winsloe
Tristan Bernard (dialogue)
Jean Bernard-Luc (dialogue) based
on a play by Peter Quinn
production Arnold Misrach
music Ralph Erwin
camera Michel Kelber
cut Louisette Hautecoeur
occupation

Jeunes filles en détresse ( German  “Young Girls in Need” ) is a French youth drama by GW Pabst from 1939 with Micheline Presle, who was just 16 at the time of shooting, in one of her first leading roles.

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Jacqueline is 16 years old, her busy parents hardly have time for her, because her professional advancement is obviously more important to them than anything else: Monsieur is pursuing a career as a lawyer specializing in divorces, and Madame is a doctor with her own clinic around the clock to do. When Jacqueline's parents realize that they have neglected their daughter, they send them to a posh girls' boarding school, the Villand. There, Jacqueline quickly made new friends, most of whom had the same experience as her, especially since many of them were children of divorce. She maintains particularly close contact with Margot, whose mother is the well-known actress Pola d'Ivry. When Margot tries to commit suicide because of the marital situation at home, Jacqueline and the others have enough: Together, the young women found a “League against Parental Divorce” called “Licodipa”. This also seems sorely needed, because Jacqueline's parents are obviously also planning to separate. And indeed Jacqueline can bring her drifting apart parents back together.

Production notes

For Georg Wilhelm Pabst, resident of France since 1932, Jeunes filles en détresse was the last French-language film. In the summer of the same year 1939 he returned to Austria (now "Ostmark"), which had meanwhile been annexed by Hitler's Germany, to visit his sick mother. When the Second World War broke out, he could no longer return to France.

Jeunes filles en détresse premiered on August 25, 1939, less than a week before the outbreak of war. Andrej Andrejew created the film structures, Jacques Manuel designed the costumes. The film was never shown in Germany.

Scriptwriter Christa Winsloe had suddenly become famous eight years earlier with the film adaptation of one of her models, Girls in Uniform .

Micheline Presle was actually called Micheline Chassagne and after this film she chose her role name “Presle” as her new artist name.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ French abbreviation for Li gue Co ntre Di vorce Pa rental

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