Das häßliche Mädchen (1933)

Directed by

Henry Koster

Genre

comedy film

Country

Nazi Germany, Germany

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman considered unattractive by her peers navigates social difficulties. She eventually finds acceptance and romance.

lightheartedplayfulbittersweetreflectivegentleunderstated

What happens

Das häßliche Mädchen ("The Ugly Girl", sometimes translated as "The Ugly Duckling") is a German comedy film made in early 1933, during the transition from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, and premièred in September that year. It was the first or second film directed by Hermann Kosterlitz, who left Germany before the film was completed and later worked in the United States under the name Henry Koster, and the last German film in which Dolly Haas appeared; she also later emigrated to the US. A Nazi-led riot broke out at the première to protest the male lead, Max Hansen, who was supposedly "too Jewish." The film's representation of the "ugly girl" as an outsider has been described as a metaphorical way to explore the outsider existence of Jews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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