Spring Symphony

Biography/Music, Germany 1983

Film biography, shot with the support of DEFA at original locations in Leipzig and Dresden: the love story between Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann, and the story of Clara's father Friedrich Wieck, who fights bitterly against this love. Friedrich Wieck is an instrument dealer, piano teacher and music teacher in Leipzig, and his daughter Clara (Nastassja Kinski) is a highly talented piano prodigy. One of his pupils is the young pianist and composer Robert Schumann (Herbert Grönemeyer), who wants to become a piano virtuoso but has to concentrate on composing because his hand is paralyzed. Schumann falls in love with Clara and the two want to marry, but first have to fight her father in court for permission. A year after the wedding, Schumann composes his "Spring Symphony" for Clara. "The shared fate of two 19th-century child prodigies as a lively sequence of scenes that replaces epic coloring with pointed individual episodes. The film avoids stiff pathos and visibly endeavors to bring the passions and problems of its characters to a modern audience - which succeeds convincingly thanks to the fresh performances of the actors." (Encyclopedia of International Film)
98 min
HD
FSK 6
Audio language:
German

Awards

German Film Award 1983 Film ribbon in gold, acting performance
Bavarian Film Award 1983 Directing Award

More information

Director:

Peter Schamoni

Editor:

Elfi Tillack

Producer:

Peter Schamoni

Cast:

Herbert Grönemeyer (Robert Schumann)

Nastassja Kinski (Clara Wieck)

Rolf Hoppe (Friedrich Wieck)

Edda Seippel (Robert's Mother)

André Heller (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy)

Bernhard Wicki (Baron of Fricken)

Margit Geissler (Christel)

Inge Marschall (Clemenza Wieck)

Original title:

Frühlingssinfonie

Original language:

German

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Ratings:

FBW "especially valuable"

Age rating:

FSK 6

Audio language:

German