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Ripening Youth (1933)

Ripening Youth poster
Original title
Reifende Jugend
Directed by
Carl Froelich
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 47m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In a coastal German town, a group of students at a school navigate their studies and personal relationships. The story focuses on a young man's growth and his interactions with peers and authority figures.

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What happens

Ripening Youth (German: Reifende Jugend) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Heinrich George, Peter Voß and Hertha Thiele. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Machus, Otto Moldenhauer and Franz Schroedter. Location shooting took place at Stralsund on the Baltic coast. It was well-received by the Nazi press on its release, and drew inspiration from the earlier Madchen in Uniform which was admired by film journalists of the Third Reich. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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