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Spring Awakening

01/01/1929

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1hr 35min

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Drama

STORY

Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Toni van Eyck
  • Ita Rina
  • Carl Ballhaus
  • Rolf von Goth
  • Paul Henckels

    Director

  • Richard Oswald

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Hegewald Film
  • Richard Oswald Produktion

    Production Countries

  • Czechoslovakia
  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German

Cast

Toni van Eyck

Wendla

Ita Rina

Ilse

Carl Ballhaus

Moritz

Rolf von Goth

Melchior Gabor

Paul Henckels

Stiefel

Mathilde Sussin

Mrs. Bergmann

Valy Arnheim

Fritz Rasp

Bernhard Goetzke