Madchenjahre Einer Konigin (aka Victoria In Dover) (1954)

After she discovers that she expected to marry and that three royal suitors have been invited to her birthday celebration, the young Queen Victoria (Romy Schneider) flees London with the intention of going to Paris. However, a severe thunderstorm causes her and her companion (Magda Schneider) and driver (Rudolf Vogel) to seek shelter at a small inn on the way. It is there that she meets a handsome young German (Adrian Hoven) and falls in love. Based on the 1932 play by Sil Vara (previously made into a film in 1936) and directed by Ernst Marischka. Just 16 years old and in only her third film, Romy Schneider's breakout role would come the following years in SISSI which made her a popular star in Germany (her international stardom wouldn't come until the 1960s). But MADCHENJAHRE EINER KONIGIN contains much of what would make her a star in SISSI. In both films, she plays naive young girls thrust into the world of royal restraint and expectations. Though historically it's nonsense, it makes for a lovely almost fairy tale like romance. So much so, that I didn't mind its predictability at all. With Karl Ludwig Diehl and Christi Mardayn.