
Spring Awakening (1929)
Overview
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.
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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | de |
Popularity | 0.076 |
Directed By
Richard Oswald
Crew
Max Knaake
Richard Oswald
Eduard Hoesch
Herbert Rosenfeld
Friedrich Raff
Frank Wedekind
Richard Oswald
Liddy Hegewald
TOP CAST

Toni van Eyck
Wendla

Ita Rina
Ilse

Carl Ballhaus
Moritz

Rolf von Goth
Melchior Gabor

Paul Henckels
Stiefel
Mathilde Sussin
Mrs. Bergmann
Willy Clever
Fahrendorf