Girls in Distress
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Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal. On the whole, the performance by the younger cast members are more convincing than those rendered by the film's so-called adults.
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Micheline Presle
Jacqueline Presle
André Luguet
Maître Jacques Presle
Madeleine Lebeau
Une élève de la pension
Robert Manuel
Robert
Marthe Mellot
Mademoiselle Jeanne
Robert Pizani
Monsieur Tarrand
Marguerite Moreno
Madame Vuilliard
Milly Mathis
La mère d'Alice
Noëlle Norman
Une élève de la pension
Pierre Bertin
Legris, le secrétaire de Me Presle
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