Spring Symphony (film)

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Movie
Original title Spring symphony
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1983
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Peter Schamoni
script Peter Schamoni,
Hans Ninety
production Peter Schamoni,
Wolfgang Hammerschmidt
music Robert Schumann
camera Gérard Vandenberg
cut Elfi Tillack
occupation

Spring Symphony is a German feature film from 1983, in which the couple Clara and Robert Schumann are portrayed in particular . The title takes up the nickname of Robert Schumann's 1st symphony .

action

Clara Wieck lives in Leipzig with her father Friedrich Wieck , who is a piano teacher . Wieck is convinced of his daughter's talent for playing the piano and does everything possible to bring the young girl to life. Inexorably he forces the child prodigy to rehearsals and concerts. Other young pianists were also attracted by the girl's success and convinced of her father's methods as a piano teacher. The young pianist and composer Robert Schumann also becomes a student of Wieck. At this point in time, Clara is eleven and Robert twenty. Years later, Clara falls in love with Robert, who is talented but still an unsuccessful composer. Father Wieck is against the relationship and sends his daughter to Dresden for singing lessons in order to separate the two. However, the young lovers do not give up. Robert travels to Clara and they decide to get married. To do this, however, they need the father's permission. They sued this in a court in Leipzig in 1840 and were given permission. This leads to a break between daughter and father and student and teacher.

background

The film Spring Symphony is the first West German production that could be filmed on original locations in the GDR . Likewise z. B. the scenes in the old Leipzig Gewandhaus filmed in the DEFA studios in Babelsberg. After extensive political negotiations, shooting began in 1982. Schamoni cast the GDR actor Rolf Hoppe , who had recently become an international star in Mephisto . Herbert Grönemeyer will play his next leading role in this film after the success of Das Boot . But it was also his last major role in the cinema. Shortly afterwards he finally established himself as a musician and from then on concentrated on this career.

The soundtrack is by Robert Schumann. Schumann's works are interpreted by the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , the pianists Babette Hierholzer and Ivo Pogorelich , the violist Gidon Kremer and the Dresden Staatskapelle under the conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch .

The film opened in theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany on April 8, 1983 and in the GDR on November 4, 1983. It was first seen on German television on October 1, 1985 at 7.30 p.m. on ZDF .

Reviews

  • Friedrich Luft in Die Welt , 1983: Peter Schamoni's Spring Symphony begins furiously. Gidon Kremer , the devil's violinist from Russia, sabers, disguised as Paganini , originally one of his wild capriccios in front of a Biedermeier audience. It makes you breathless. On the gallery of the hall the open face of young Schumann (Herbert Grönemeyer). He twitches at the wild rhythms. His decision is made. He wants to become “the paganini of the piano”. Schamoni cuts himself out of Schumann's life for ten sky-storming, sad years. He is an apprentice to Friedrich Wieck (Rolf Hoppe), the enterprising, calculating father of the child prodigy, Clara Wieck (Nastassja Kinski). He has to give up. A hand injury makes him unfit for a career as a pianist. The young climber throws himself onto the composition. He falls in love with Wieck's gifted daughter. The rigid father wants to prevent the connection by all means. In order to be able to get married, one finally goes to court. The raven father, who had thrown all his love and the capital of his heart into the divine pianist daughter, loses. The young couple can get married, can finally make their romantic love forever. The happy ending is cloudy. Schamoni suggests: This must go wrong. Two geniuses can't stand each other. Human tragedy is inevitable. The film ends, clearly in a minor key. This film by Peter Schamoni is more than just the honest brushing of well-known musicians' fates. It sounds real. It's worth seeing. Even for music lovers and Schumann connoisseurs.
  • Der Spiegel , 15/1983: Otherwise the “Spring Symphony” would be the usual picture arc with candlelight, half-timbered romance , horse-drawn carriage rides through pastel-colored landscapes, with concerts, where concertgoers applauded three final bars, if it weren't for Clara's father, the extraordinary GDR - Actor Rolf Hoppe ( Goering from " Mephisto "). And that shows love of children as a postponed life, business acumen as intense affection. In short: his story with the daughter who was bred to be a child prodigy is a curious, affectionate and critical expedition and not just colored little night music.

Awards

In 1983 Peter Schamoni received the Bavarian Film Prize in the directing category . Nastassja Kinski was also awarded the Gold Film Ribbon for Best Acting Achievement in 1983 .

literature

Frauke Hunfeld: Spring Symphony. Materials for a film by Peter Schamoni. Atlas Film and AV, Duisburg 1987. ISBN 978-3-889-32597-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spring Symphony. Information about the film. Schamoni Film und Medien GmbH, accessed on June 28, 2015 .
  2. ^ Filmlexikon and Spiegel.de .
  3. ↑ Schamoni Film. Press quote. Die Welt, 1983, Friedrich Luft: Spring Symphony. In: Schamoni Film & Medien GmbH. Retrieved October 26, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Tatata-taaa. Der Spiegel , April 11, 1983, accessed April 26, 2012 .
  5. ↑ German Film Prize. German Film Academy , accessed on June 28, 2015 .