Young Girls in Trouble (1939)

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Country: France
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1939-08-25
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writers: Tristan Bernard , Jean Bernard-Luc , Peter Quinn , Christa Winsloe
Language: French
Stars: Marcelle Chantal , Jacqueline Delubac , André Luguet , Micheline Presle , Louise Carletti , Ariane Murator , Barbara Shaw , Claude Lehmann , Gaston Jacquet , Georges Jamin
Runtime: 90 min
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination
AKA: Večni zakon , Jeunes filles en détresse , Zagrożone dziewczęta (Poland) , De heilige wet (Netherlands the) , Ragazze in pericolo (Italy) , Unga flickor i nöd (Sweden) , Vecni zakon , Vječni zakon , Meisjes in nood (Belgium) , Naar Forældre skilles (Denmark) , Jeunes filles en détresse (France, French Republic) , Večni zakon (Slovenia) , Lei Sagrada (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Girls in Distress , Young Girls in Trouble (United Kingdom) , La ley sagrada (Mexico) , Kapinalliset tyttäremme (Finland) , I agonia ton koritsion (Greece) , La loi sacrée (France, French Republic) , Vječni zakon (Croatia) , Jeunes filles en détresse (Belgium) , A Lei Sagrada (Brazil) , La ley sagrada (Spain)
Plot: Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). When they become aware that they neglect their daughter they send her to a boarding school for girls, impeccably run by Mme Vuillard. There Jacqueline meets her new friends who are, nearly all, the children of divorced parents.They all found a league against divorce they name Licodipa.When it is the turn of Jacqueline's parents to split up, and when Margot, Jacqueline's best friend, attempts to kill herself, distress sets in among the girls of the institution...
IMDB:tt0031508