The Little Schoolmistress (Italian: La maestrina) is a 1934 Italian drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Andreina Pagnani, Renato Cialente and Egisto Olivieri. It was based on a play of the same title by Dario Niccodemi which was again adapted into a 1942 film.^[1] It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome.^[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. Brignone's sister Mercedes Brignone had starred in a 1919 silent film version of the story directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi.

In a village in rural Tuscany at the turn of the twentieth century the young schoolmistress is wrongly suspected by gossips of conducting a secret romantic affair.

• Andreina Pagnani as Maria Bini, la maestrina
• Renato Cialente as Il podestà
• Egisto Olivieri as Il commissario
• Enzo Gainotti as Il bidello
• Jone Frigerio as La direttrice
• Mario Ferrari as Giacomo Macchia
• Cesare Zoppetti as Il medico
• Gina Grappasonni as Una collega di Maria

• Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. I film: Tutti i film italiani dal 1930 al 1944. Gremese Editore, 2005.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

• The Little Schoolmistress at IMDb

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