Spring Takes Time
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| Price | $29.95 |
Spring Takes Time
Original title: (Der Frühling braucht Zeit)
Director:
GDR, 1965, 76 min, b&w
In German; English subtitles
Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and accused of approving a defective pipeline that caused a half million loss to his company. At first, the case seems clear-cut for the state prosecutor, but when he probes deeper, he discovers that Solter had acted against his better judgment due to the pressure from his career-driven and authoritarian boss.
The film, based on an actual crime case, was banned shortly after its release for its critical examination of the problems of a planned economy and the extremely stylized avant-garde imagery. The scathing criticism unintentionally complemented the film by accusing it of stylistic affinities to Antonioni and Fellini.
The DVD also includes Monolog for a Taxi Driver (GDR, TV, 1962, dir. Günter Stahnke). Officials labeled the short written by Günter Kunert as Kafkaesque and banned it in 1962.
Special features:
- New digitally restored transfer
- Biographies & Filmographies
- Günter Stahnke on His Film, 2014, 12 min.
- “Synonym and Signal,” by Detlef Kannapin, film historian
- “Constructive Stylization,” by Annette Dorgerloh, Humboldt University Berlin
- “The Late Spring,” by Dieter Wolf, former head of artistic group Babelsberg
- Original Posters (1965 and 1990)
- Gallery of Sketches. Courtesy of Georg Kranz, set designer.
- Monolog for a Taxi Driver (GDR, 1962, dir. Günter Stahnke, 37 min, script: Günter Kunert, 37 min, B&W, TV, English subtitles)