The first day of spring (1956)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The first day of spring |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 92, 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Helmut Weiss |
| script |
Jacob Geis Juliane Kay Helmut Weiss |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Georg Haentzschel |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| cut | Annemarie Rokoss |
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The first day of spring is a German comedy from 1956 by Helmut Weiss with Luise Ullrich , Paul Dahlke and Robert Freitag in the leading roles. The old stars Fita Benkhoff , Gustav Fröhlich and Heli Finkenzeller can be seen in other leading roles . The story is based on the English play Call It a Day (1935) by Dodie Smith .
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The first day of spring of the year ... the endorphins shoot into the herb. But with Dolly and her husband Robert Hiller, of all people, who have been happily married for 20 years, everything seems to be turning into the opposite on this day, and both are challenged by severe temptations. Because on the first day of spring, the Hillers' marital happiness is put to a severe and serious test: Dolly gets to know the handsome and urbane Bruno, who has just returned from Africa to look for a wife for life. The well-known singer Bettina Morelli, on the other hand, makes Robert look beautiful today, as many times before.
But the two mature Hillers are not alone with their hormonal turbulence. They have three young and partly grown-up children who are just going through the first hurricanes of feelings themselves, from the first love to the small grief to the great disappointment. Only when all the family members come home at midnight and the flirtatious couple Dolly and Robert speak out, a turbulent, exhausting and insightful day comes to an end.
Production notes
The first day of spring occurred between April 17 and May 24, 1956 in Berlin. The premiere was on July 5, 1956 in Berlin's Marble House . On October 16, 1993, the strip ran for the first time on German television ( RTL2 ).
Alf Teichs was chief dramaturge, Horst Wendlandt took over the production management. The married couple Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt designed the film structures, Maria Brauner designed the costumes.
Reviews
Der Spiegel wrote: “Three scriptwriters have freshened up Dodie Smith's faded family comedy with fashionable jargon, diet punchlines and Grace Kelly allusions. Of the six spring couples that the film brings together, one is far ahead of the rest in terms of grace and wit: the mature family mother (Luise Ullrich) and the farmer who wants to take her to Africa (Robert Freitag). Ullrich continues to win new flirtatious, warm nuances from her standard role, the forty-four who, to her own delightful surprise, is courted again. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Luise Ullrich in one of her standard roles as a smart average woman."
Cinema judged: "Old-fashioned but respectable"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short review in Der Spiegel from July 18, 1956
- ↑ The first day of spring. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Short review on cinema.de
Web links
- The first spring day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The first day of spring at filmportal.de