A girl crashes a military academy disguised as her brother. Chaos? Inevitable. Romance? Also inevitable.
During the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy.
Acting
Dolly Haas sells the hell out of this ridiculous premise.
Costume
Military drag and actual drag, sometimes simultaneously.
Director
Géza von Bolváry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Hungarian director Géza von Bolváry's German-language period, before he fled to Britain when the Nazis rose.
Pre-Code Hollywood gets the attention, but Weimar cinema was quietly wild with gender-bending comedies like this before 1933.
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