Product Details

• Actors: John Aniston, Gary Bisig, Yuval David, Nicholas Downs, Briana Feehan
• Directors: Arthur Allan Seidelman
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: E1 Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 6, 2010
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0033HKBQA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,563 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Awakening of Spring" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Product Description

Based on the revolutionary play by Frank Wedekind, three teenagers – Michael (Jesse Lee Soffer), Matthew (Javier Picayo) and Anne (Carrie Wiita) – discover their sexuality amidst the scorn and condemnation of their oppressive patriarchal society. Without guidance and support, their journey of self discovery dangerously builds to a tragic and shocking climax.

Product Description

Growing up in a provincial town, three youths discover their sexuality, but are tragically condemned by the oppressive patriarchal society.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very honorable production, March 27, 2010

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Gale Harold Fan "Gale Harold Fan" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Awakening of Spring (DVD)

First of all, it's basically a photographed stage play, though it's all done in a studio (with neutral backdrops and extremely minimal scenery), not in a theatre in front of an audience. If that turns you off, okay, but it's hardly unprecedented.

Apart from that annoying clarinet, I quite like it. It's a nice to see the Wedekind play done straight (though liberties are taken, names are anglicized and marks become dollars), not to take anything away from the musical "Spring's Awakening."

Although the attitude towards sex education may have changed, and our mores, and the amount of information available to children, human nature has not. The way the people grope for answers and try to understand their own feelings and impulses and physicality is timeless.

The acting under Seidelman's direction is very good. Jesse Lee Soffer is very charismatic, Constance Towers is excellent. Bridget Moloney does wonderful things with her little part. There is some tasteful and artistically justified nudity, none of it full frontal.

A clever idea of Seidelman's is to have the teachers (but not the headmaster) in the faculty meeting where Michael is expelled wear carnival masks. It allows them to be doubled (which one senses they are) by the young actors playing the students and thereby adds an extra dimension to the caricatures they basically are.

But over all, the spareness of the production, the fact that it focuses on the generations in the way it does, and the English names and places (New Hampshire is actually mentioned) cause it to dialogue with "Our Town." It becomes the more unflinching cousin of the Wilder play. The dead even come back.