The Second Spring (1975)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The second spring |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulli Lommel |
| script | Ulli Lommel |
| production | Hansjürgen Pohland |
| music | Stelvio Cipriani |
| camera |
Lothar Elias Stickelbruck's Giovanni Narzisi |
| cut | Christa Pohland |
| occupation | |
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The second spring is a German feature film from 1975 by Ulli Lommel about an amour fou with Curd Jürgens in the lead role.
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The once successful book author and today's bon vivant Fox has achieved a lot in his life and lives in a classy atmosphere in Rome . The Palazzo resident did not have much left of his former fame; Fox is now working as a gossip columnist for a post called "Daily American". After surviving a serious illness, he experienced his second spring shortly before his 60th birthday and decided to get married. The chosen one, his former nurse Gertrud, is a few decades younger than him, a sensual, cultured appearance down to the fingertips and of desirable beauty. The aging Don Juan quickly falls into the old waters of his former habits; his sexual debauchery, once lived to the fullest, arouse the no less animal instincts in the young woman until she finally begins an erotic game that drives her to the point of cruel escalation and Fox to the brink of psychological exhaustion.
Gertrud wins control over her new husband, who has decayed, at an early stage. The long-maned blonde begins to play erotic (double) games, also uses her new husband's voyeurism during lesbian interludes in the bathtub and, out of jealousy, poisons Fox's Great Dane en passant, since she suspects that the dog is his only true love. Fox and Gertrud soon have to realize that both of them have rushed into this marriage and that neither they can get the satisfaction they need from their erotically exhausted husband, nor can he bring back his lost youth with her. Soon Gertrud reacts to the desperate and sometimes helpless advances of her husband more and more hostile, goes her own way and begins to punish her husband with contempt. These culminate in humiliation and sexual debauchery. Despite an attempt to get rid of the marriage queue, the old man remains a slave to his wife. But she humiliates him in a particularly perfidious way in the finale, when she has fun with a rocker in front of his eyes, whereupon Fox dies of a heart attack.
Production notes
The second spring came about in the spring of 1975 in Rome . The film passed the FSK exam on July 4, 1975 and premiered on September 11 of the same year.
Reviews
The reviews were mixed to very bad. The voyeuristic style of the strip, an old man attitude towards sex and the sometimes very vulgar language were criticized.
“The best bad movie of the season. This pornographic trivial film with Curd Jürgens in the lead role, which comes along on the fashion wave of morbid cinema eroticism, tells more about the current celluloid zeitgeist than some strenuous, more glamorous artifacts. (...) Lommel's grotesque Juergens erotic is just the crude dregs of the intellectual cream - and more than that, a paragon of honesty. Lommel… has observed Rome's decadence scene, stolen from court directors from Antonioni to Visconti and made a melancholy colportage on the traditional cinema theme "The Old Man and the Girl". Even a trivial film can no longer do without a socially critical message and psychoanalytic culinary latin - even this "Second Spring" conjures up a frivolous apocalyptic mood and astonishes crisis, boredom and sexual hysteria. (...) To finish off, Eddie Constantine sings a melancholy song with effort and heart in the role of a mad American entertainer. So much undisguised old-man exhibitionism, it has size. "
"An embarrassing dime-book story with speculative sex inserts; without psychological dimension, also technically miserable. "
"... greasy old man's fantasy."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The second spring. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- The second spring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The second spring at filmportal.de