''Spring Symphony'' (german: Frühlingssinfonie) is a 1983 West German
historical 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
Peter Schamoni
Peter Schamoni (27 March 1934 – 14 June 2011) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 35 films between 1957 and 2011. His 1966 film '' No Shooting Time for Foxes'' was entered into the 16th Berlin Internation ...
and starring
Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (; , ; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with ''Stay as You Are'' (1978). She then came to gl ...
,
Herbert Grönemeyer, and
Rolf Hoppe
Rolf Hoppe (6 December 1930 – 14 November 2018) was a prolific German stage, cinema, and television actor, who played in more than 400 films in a career which spanned over six decades.
To international audiences Hoppe is perhaps best known f ...
.
[Mitchell p. 171] It portrays the life of the pianist
Clara Wieck and her relationship with the composer
Robert Schumann.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Alfred Hirschmeier
Alfred Hirschmeier (19 March 1931 – 27 March 1996) was a German production designer. In 1995, he was a member of the jury at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.
Selected filmography
* ''Five Cartridges'' (1960)
* '' Naked Among W ...
. It was shot at the
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial bac ...
in
Berlin
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and
on location in various places in
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
including
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
,
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
and
Zwickau
Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ...
.
Cast
References
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1983 films
1980s biographical drama films
1980s historical romance films
German biographical drama films
German historical romance films
West German films
1980s German-language films
Films set in the 1830s
Films set in 1840
Films set in Dresden
Films set in Leipzig
Films directed by Peter Schamoni
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
Films about classical music and musicians
Films about composers
Films about pianos and pianists
Biographical films about musicians
Robert Schumann
Cultural depictions of classical musicians
Cultural depictions of Niccolò Paganini
1983 drama films
1980s German films
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