''Spring Song'' (german: Frühlingslied, it, Piccoli amici) is a 1954 German-Italian

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directed by

Hans Albin Hans Albin (27 July 1905 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor, film producer and film director.Goble p.9 Selected filmography * '' Homecoming to Happiness'' (1933) * ''Three Bluejackets and a Blonde'' (1933) * '' The Champion of Pontresina '' ...

, and starring

Anne-Marie Blanc Anne-Marie Blanc (1919–2009) was born on 2 September 1919 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. She was a Swiss film and television actress. She died on 5 February 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.

René Deltgen Renatus Heinrich Deltgen born 30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; died 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgian stage and film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance ...

, and

Albert Lieven Albert Lieven (born Albert Fritz Liévin; 22 June 1906 – 22 December 1971) was a German actor. Early life Lieven was born in Hohenstein, East Prussia (Olszynek, Poland). His father was the head physician of the Tuberculosis sanatorium H ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p. 82 The film's sets were designed by the

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s Ernst H. Albrecht 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 1 ...

. It was partly shot on location in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

Cast

Oliver Grimm Oliver Grimm (born 16 April 1969) is a Swiss gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. References 1969 births Living people Swiss male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland Gymnasts at the 1992 ...

as Wolfgang Fabricius * Elsbeth Sigmund as Vreni / Heidi * Martin Andreas as Jöggi *

as Elisabeth Lauber *

as Eduard Fabricius *

as Dr. Andermatt *

Heinrich Gretler Heinrich Gretler (1897–1977) was a Swiss film and television actor, who also starred on stage at the Bernhard-Theater in Zurich. Selected filmography * '' The Mysterious Mirror'' (1928) * ''Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) * ''The Man w ...

as Uncle Abegg *

Leonard Steckel Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 actor and director of stage and scre ...

as Dr. Falconi *

Bobby Todd Bobby Todd (22 June 1904 – 7 September 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in 34 films between 1926 and 1961. Selected filmography * ''Cruiser Emden'' (1932) * ''The Dream of Butterfly'' (1939) * '' The Original Sin'' (1948) * ''He ...

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as Rösli - Hausmädchen *

Erna Sellmer Erna Elisabeth Dorothea Sellmer (19 June 1905 – 13 May 1983) was a German film actress. She was best known in the English-speaking world for her role as housekeeper Frau Gerber in the 1970s Swiss-Canadian television series ''George'' about a St ...

as Anna, Köchin * Karl Supper as Dr. Rudd * Anneliese Betschart as Bach-Bäuerin *

Anne-Marie Hanschke Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (born 7 April 1991) is an English singer. She has attained charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, including Clean Bandit's " Rockabye", which peaked at number one, as well as "Alarm", "Ciao Adios", "Friends", "2002 ...

as Fräulein Reuter * Willy Frey as Pfarrer *

Heinz-Leo Fischer Heinz-Leo Fischer (1902–1977) was an Austrian stage actor, stage, television actor, television and film actor. During the Weimar Republic of the 1920s he appeared in plays such as ''Marlborough Goes to War''.Youngkin p.459 Filmography Refere ...

Alfred Rasser Alfred Rasser (29 May 1907 – 18 August 1977) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor who starred predominantly in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions, but he was also known for the role of ...

* Elisabeth Lauber

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1954 films Italian drama films West German films German drama films 1954 drama films 1950s German-language films Swiss German-language films Films directed by Hans Albin German black-and-white films Italian black-and-white films 1950s German films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub