A 1921 hygiene film so dry, even bacteria fell asleep watching it.
Produced by a division of social services, the film follows a country girl's journey to learn more about hygiene and health after she's rejected from by her boyfriend who thinks her uncultivated.
Production
Funded by social services—cinema as bureaucratic intervention.
Costume
Country bumpkin to hygiene queen transformation arc.
Director
Alexander Erdmann-Jesnitzer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Weimar Germany loved these 'reform films'—part entertainment, part state-sponsored body policing.
The director Alexander Erdmann-Jesnitzer made roughly 847 hygiene films. Historians have checked out emotionally.
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