Hungarian director, filmmaker and actress Leontine Sagan was BOTD in 1889. Born in Budapest, she was raised in South Africa and Australia. She moved back to Europe in her early 20s, studying with famed Austrian director Max Reinhardt, and appearing in German silent films The Holy Mountain, The Great Leap and White Ecstasy (alongside fellow actress and future filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl). She moved into film directing, scoring an international success with 1931’s Mädchen in Uniform, a lesbian-themed drama set in a girls’ boarding school, notable for its sympathetic depiction of lesbian desire. It was also the first German film to be produced cooperatively, with the cast and crew receiving profit shares rather than a salary. Following the film’s success, Sagan moved to England, where she worked for director Alexander Korda and directed the romantic drama Men of Tomorrow. She became a theatrical producer at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, reviving its fortunes with highly successful productions of Ivor Novello’s musicals Glamorous Night, Careless Rapture and The Dancing Years. In the 1940s, she moved to South Africa, directing theatre and co-founding the National Theatre in Johannesburg. Little information exists about her personal life and relationships. She died in 1974 aged 85.