Leontine Sagan
(1889-1974)
Austrian-Hungarian stage and film director
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Leontine Sagan (born Leontine Schlesinger; 13 February 1889 – 20 May 1974) was a theatre director and actress of Jewish descent, whose life and career took her from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to South Africa, Britain and the United States. She is, however, best known for directing a film, Mädchen in Uniform (1931), which has been celebrated for its scathing indictment of Prussian military-style schooling, as well as its sensitive portrayal of same-sex intimacy between a teacher and a student at a girls' school, in the waning years of Germany's Weimar Republic.
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13 February 1889 Budapest, Hungary
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20 May 1974 (aged 85) Pretoria, South Africa
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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