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School for Love
Year
1955
Language
FRENCH (ENGLISH subtitles)
Duration
1h 36m
Rating
NR
CC
Performers
Jean Marais, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Pia, Yves Robert
Directed By
Marc Allégret
Publication Information
Icarus Films
Summary
Brigitte Bardot was only 20 when she starred in this adaptation of a 1920 Vicki Baum novel. She's Sophie, one of a platoon of young music conservatory students in postwar Vienna, but the one that stands out, especially to the head singing teacher Walter (Jean Marais), whose real love is his wife, a famous and unstable diva (Denise Noel), but who routinely dallies with his more beautiful students. The story details the hothouse triangle between the saucy and self-confident Sophie, Walter, and a third student, Elis (Isabelle Pia), a talented but melancholic blonde from a troubled home whom no one realizes is nearing the brink of suicide.