''Precocious Youth'' (german: Die Frühreifen) is a 1957 West German
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Josef von Báky Josef may refer to
*Josef (given name)
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and starring
Heidi Brühl
Heidi Rosemarie Brühl (; 30 January 1942 – 8 June 1991) was a German singer and actress who came to prominence as a young teenager and had a prolific career in film and television. She was also a successful recording artist, and is known for ...
,
Christian Doermer
Christian Doermer (5 July 1935 – 14 July 2022) was a German actor and director. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1954 to 2022. He starred in the 1966 film '' No Shooting Time for Foxes''. The film was entered int ...
and
Christian Wolff.
[Hake p. 115]
The film's sets were designed by
Emil Hasler
Emil Hasler (November 8, 1901 – January 15, 1986) was a German art director who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. These included a number of Weimar classics such as ''Diary of a Lost Girl, M'' and ''The Blue Angel''.Prawe ...
and
Paul Markwitz
Paul Markwitz (16 July 1908 – 19 March 1968)Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films Volume 5, Berlin 2001, , pg. 281f was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. He worked on over 50 films between 1935 and ...
.
Cast
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Heidi Brühl
Heidi Rosemarie Brühl (; 30 January 1942 – 8 June 1991) was a German singer and actress who came to prominence as a young teenager and had a prolific career in film and television. She was also a successful recording artist, and is known for ...
as Inge
*
Christian Doermer
Christian Doermer (5 July 1935 – 14 July 2022) was a German actor and director. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1954 to 2022. He starred in the 1966 film '' No Shooting Time for Foxes''. The film was entered int ...
as Wolfgang
*
Christian Wolff as Freddy
*
Jochen Brockmann as Vikar Englert
*
Paul Esser
Paul Esser (24 April 1913 – 20 January 1988) was a German stage and television actor and voice actor. He is remembered for playing the lead role in the Sender Freies Berlin version of the detective series ''Tatort''. Esser was born in Gel ...
as Herr Messmann
*
Richard Häussler
Richard Häussler (26 October 1908 – 28 September 1964) was a German actor and film director. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1936 and 1964. He also directed seven films between 1951 and 1957. He was born in Munich, Germany and ...
as Herr Rau
*
Ilse Fürstenberg
Ilse Fürstenberg (12 December 1907, in Berlin – 16 December 1976, in Basel) was a German actress, working on stage, screen, television and as voice actress.
Selected filmography
* '' The Blue Angel'' (1930) - Raths Wirtschafterin / Maid
* '' ...
as Frau Messmann
*
Peter Kraus
Peter Kraus (born 18 March 1939) is an Austrian-German singer and actor.
Born Peter Siegfried Krausenecker in Munich, Germany, Kraus was popular especially in the 1950s, notably in those musical comedy films where he played opposite Cornelia F ...
as Guenther
*
Sabine Sinjen
Sabine Sinjen (18 August 1942 – 18 May 1995) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1957 and 1994. Sinjen was married to television director Peter Beauvais from 1963 to 1984.
She appeared as one of 28 women ...
as Hannelore
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Harald Dietl as Heini
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Harry Wüstenhagen as Abteilungsleiter Hennig
*
Jürgen Graf
Jürgen Graf (born 15 August 1951) is a Swiss author, former teacher and Holocaust denier. Since August 2000 he has been living in exile, and is currently living in Russia, working as a translator, with his wife.
Background
Born in Basel, Graf s ...
as Butzi
*
Cathrin Heyer as Helga
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Claus Peter Lüttgen as Jochen
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Peter Nijinskij as Jonny
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Walter Koch as Kalle
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Adalbert Gausche as Josef Andretzki
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
* Hake, Sabine. ''German National Cinema''. Routledge, 2002.
External links
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1957 films
German teen drama films
German coming-of-age drama films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Josef von Báky
1950s teen drama films
1950s coming-of-age drama films
1957 drama films
1950s German films
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