"What is its strange appeal? Why does it stir the emotions?"
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
Social & External
The people behind it
Emilia Unda
Headmistress of the Boarding School
Dorothea Wieck
Miss von Bernburg
Hedwig Schlichter
Miss von Kesten
Hertha Thiele
Manuela von Meinhardis
Ellen Schwanneke
Ilse von Westhagen
Annemarie von Rochhausen
Edelgard Komtesse von Mengsberg (uncredited)
Erika Biebrach
Lilli von Kattner (uncredited)
Lene Berdolt
Fräulein von Gaerschner (uncredited)
Margory Bodker
Miss Evans (uncredited)
Gertrud de Lalsky
Exzellenz von Ehrenhardt - Manuelas Tante (uncredited)
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