Spring rush
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Spring rush |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | approx. 104 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wilhelm Dieterle |
| script |
Charlotte Hagenbruch , dramaturgical arrangement: Ludwig Biro |
| production | Joe Pasternak for Universal, Berlin |
| camera | Charles Stumar |
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Spring Rush is a late, German silent film by and with Wilhelm Dieterle from 1929.
action
The action takes place in the environment of the beautiful and the rich, between rural and urban life. Wheat-blonde and enthusiastic Viola von Birkenfeld, a kind of 16-year-old Käthchen von Heilbronn , leads a secluded life in her grandfather's castle. During a brief encounter with the young Friedrich von Bornim, she falls madly in love with the handsome young man. He has come from Berlin to see that his estate is all right. In her rapturous infatuation, Viola soon shows great devotion. But the young man regularly rejects Viola, because he still loves his gradually alienating wife Irene, of whose existence Viola, however, has no idea. One day Viola's grandfather had an accident and this emergency situation began to bring Viola and Friedrich closer and closer.
May, with its sensual floral scents and its temperatures that get the hormones going, does the rest to gradually break Friedrich's resistance. But then one day Friedrich's wife Irene appears on the scene and is ready to fight for her husband. Viola's grandfather now learns that Friedrich is not free at all for his grandchild. Full of anger he wants to tackle this dishonorable youth. He lies in wait for Friedrich in his quarry and triggers a rockfall to get the supposed villains out of the way. Viola rushes to prevent the worst and takes care of her beloved man. Irene realizes that she was late. Friedrich has long since lost it to this delicate, elf-like creature. With decency and style she withdraws and leaves her husband, who is loved more by Viola than by her, to the rival.
Production notes
Spring Rush was created from June to July 1929 in the EFA Atelier Cicerostraße Berlin. The film passed the censorship on August 5, 1929 and premiered on October 8, 1929 in the Titania Palace. The eight-stroke with a length of 2609 meters received a youth ban.
Paul Kohner took over the production management. The film structures were designed by Ernst Stern and carried out by Otto Gülstorff .
Reviews
“Intoxicating images, all the sweet things of spring brought together: blossoms and blossoms, songbirds and stork's nest, zephyr clouds and soft winds, parks, flower meadows, flower hedges, girls with confusing senses and a rushing spring thunderstorm: kitsch frenzy. With the clear intention of composing Käthchen von Heilbronn in pictures in 1929. Spring reports and backfish dialogues in Kleist's memories do not together make a poem. A quarry has been prepared for the catastrophe: a madman throws rocky weather on Dieterle's young, beautiful manhood. Two good faces: Elsa Wagner as the mother and Alexandra Schmitt as the old decision maker. "
“It is superfluous to reproduce the contents of this stirring piece, which is set among incredibly wealthy landowners somewhere in the country. Only the old Alexandra Schmitt played a "decision maker" so shockingly true and lively that one forgot the nonsense of it all while playing. "
"Dieterle's films have nothing to do with Americanism based on banal instincts, but they are national in the best sense of the word."
"... one is pleased to see Vivian Gibson once as a suffering woman, not as a man-murdering vamp. Lien Deyer's role is extraordinarily difficult. Half a girl's child, raised in rural loneliness so far from the world that it seems a matter of course to him, the people, who is fascinated by always circling a little dog, not leaving his side and begging for his love with grace and tender eyes. (…) Wilhelm Dieterle is also up to date this time with the defeat of the boy Man, who at first does not notice the charm of little viola and is devoted to his wife, the inner struggle, the breaking passion in the delicately suggested love scenes, he surpasses many of his earlier performances. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm (William) Dieterle - actor, director . In: CineGraph - Lexikon zum Deutschsprachigen Film , Lg. 22, F 10
- ↑ "Spring Rush". In: Neue Freie Presse , February 4, 1930, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- Spring rush at filmportal.de
- Frühlingsrauschen in the Internet Movie Database (English)