05 Nov 2023
Maria Montessori
Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.
Five Girls and a Rope
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
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Jing Ai Hejiang
Zhang Shi Sibao
Ying Chang Shaman
Yuan-Qi Lu Aiyue
Hsiu-ling Wang Guijuan
Wang Yu-wen Pei-yu Wu Jinmei
楊潔玫 Mingtao
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