"Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara Wieck was a master technician in the playing of the piano, a composer (probably not at Schumann's level), and was a child prodigy.
Acting
Nastassja Kinski ages Clara from teen prodigy to grieving widow.
Production
Actual period instruments, actual Leipzig locations, actual commitment.
Director
Peter Schamoni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Herbert Grönemeyer was primarily a rock musician; this was his dramatic breakthrough before becoming Germany's biggest pop star.
The real Clara destroyed Robert's early love letters to her—this film imagines what she wanted history to forget.
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