''Spring Awakening'' (German: ''Frühlingserwachen'') is a 1929

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silent

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directed by Richard Oswald and starring

Mathilde Sussin Mathilde Sussin (21 September 1876 – 2 August 1943) was an Austrian actress. Sussin was born in Vienna into a Jewish family and died in 1943 at Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Selected filmography * ''The Black Tulip ...

, Toni van Eyck and

Paul Henckels Paul Henckels (9 September 1885 – 27 May 1967) was a German film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1921 and 1965. Paul Henckels had started his acting career on the stage in the 1900s. He was well known for his e ...

. It is an adaptation of the play of the same title by

Frank Wedekind Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the deve ...

.Prawer p.86 It is part of the cycle of

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s made during the

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as Frau Bergmann * Toni van Eyck as Wendla, her daughter *

as Bürovorsteher Stiefel *

Carl Balhaus Carl Balhaus (born Carl Ballhaus; 4 November 1905 – 28 July 1968) was a German stage and film actor. After the Second World War he worked as screenwriter and director for the East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic ...

as Moritz, his son *

Rolf von Goth Rolf von Goth (5 November 1906 – 9 November 1981) was a film actor from Windhoek in German Southwest Africa who settled and worked in Germany. After appearing in minor roles in several silent films such as ''Metropolis'' (1927) von Goth emerged ...

as Melchoir Gabor *

Ita Rina Tamara Đorđević (born Italina Lida Kravanja; 7 July 1907 – 10 May 1979), known professionally as Ita Rina, was a Slovenian film actress and beauty queen. She was one of the major film stars in Germany and Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s an ...

as Ilse *

Willy Clever Willy Clever (1905 in Elberfeld –1969) was a German actor and screenwriter.Silberman p.239 He worked on several multi-language versions at the Joinville Studios in Paris during the early years of sound. Selected filmography * '' Spring Awaken ...

as the painter Fahrendorf *

Valy Arnheim Valy Arnheim (born Valentin Theodor Woldemar Appel; 8 June 1883 – 11 November 1950) was a German film actor and director. Selected filmography * '' Lightning Command'' (1921) * ''Anne-Liese of Dessau'' (1925) * '' Harry Hill's Deadly Hunt'' (1 ...

as the rector *

Fritz Rasp Fritz Heinrich Rasp (13 May 1891 – 30 November 1976) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1916 and 1976. His obituary in '' Der Spiegel'' described Rasp as "the German film villain in service, for over 60 years." ...

as the teacher Habebald *

Bernhard Goetzke Bernhard Goetzke (5 June 1884 – 7 October 1964) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in 130 films between 1917 and 1961. Selected filmography * ''Fear'' (1917) * '' The Last Sun Son'' (1919) * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * '' The ...

as another teacher *

Sigi Hofer In the Völsung cycle, Sigi is the ancestor of the Völsung lineage. In the '' Völsunga saga'', he is said to be one of the sons of Odin. He is also listed among Odin's sons in the ''Nafnaþulur ''Nafnaþulur'' (Old Norse: ) is a subsection ...

as Pedell

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*Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

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