Spring Awakening

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Toni van Eyck

Wendla

Age : 77 | Popularity : 5%

Ita Rina

Ilse

Age : 71 | Popularity : 3%

Carl Ballhaus

Moritz

Age : 62 | Popularity : 3%

Rolf von Goth

Melchior Gabor

Age : 75 | Popularity : 3%

Paul Henckels

Stiefel

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Mathilde Sussin

Mrs. Bergmann

Age : 66 | Popularity : 5%

Willy Clever

Fahrendorf

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Valy Arnheim

Age : 67 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Theatre Play	Frank Wedekind
	Screenplay	Friedrich Raff Herbert Rosenfeld
Directing	Director	Richard Oswald
Production	Producer	Richard Oswald Liddy Hegewald
Camera	Director of Photography	Eduard Hoesch
Art	Art Direction	Max Knaake
Department	Role	Name

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