Passion Flower Hotel

1978 German film

Roger Longrigg (novel)
Ken Globus
Paul Nicholas

Produced by

Artur Brauner
Robert Russ
Allexander Zellermeyer

Starring

Nastassja Kinski
Gerry Sundquist
Stefano D'Amato
Gabriele Blum
Sean Chapman

Cinematography

Richard Suzuki
Jair Ganor
Gernot Köhler
Sandro Tamborra

Edited byDaniela Padalewski-JunekMusic byFrancis LaiDistributed by

Atlantic Releasing Corporation
Audifilm

Release date

April 14, 1978 (1978-04-14)

Running time

100 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGermanBox office$306,061 (USA)^[1]

Passion Flower Hotel (also known as Leidenschaftliche Blümchen, also known as Boarding School) is a 1978 coming of age comedy film directed by André Farwagi. It is a liberal adaptation of the 1962 novel Passion Flower Hotel and stars Nastassja Kinski as one of the schoolgirls, in her third feature film.

Plot

Summer of 1956. Curious American girl Deborah Collins (Kinski) arrives at the St. Clara's Boarding School in Switzerland. The school headmistress wants to use Deborah as a tool to discipline the other girls but she is revealed to be more experienced and daring in sexual matters. The girls now plot to lose their virginity with the boys in the private school across the lake. After Deborah finally has sex with Frederick Sinclair (Sundquist) in a romantic setting, she is expelled and the other girls feel that everything will be so sad and boring without her. She informs the headmistress that she will tell everyone that the school is run by disreputable teachers if she expels the other girls. She departs on a train after kissing Frederick goodbye.