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Spring Shower

Original title: Tavaszi zápor
  • 1932
  • 1h 6m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
295
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Spring Shower (1932)
Drama

It tells the story of Mari, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. Mari is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of... Read allIt tells the story of Mari, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. Mari is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.It tells the story of Mari, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. Mari is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.

  • Director
    • Pál Fejös
  • Writer
    • Ilona Fülöp
  • Stars
    • Annabella
    • Ilona Dajbukát
    • Steven Geray
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    295
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Pál Fejös
    • Writer
      • Ilona Fülöp
    • Stars
      • Annabella
      • Ilona Dajbukát
      • Steven Geray
    • 3User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Annabella
    Annabella
    • Szabó Mária
    Ilona Dajbukát
    • A jegyzõné
    • (as Dajbukát Ilona)
    Steven Geray
    Steven Geray
    • Urasági intézõ
    • (as Györgyai István)
    Sándor Pethes
    • Táncmester
    • (as Pethes Sándor)
    Gyula Gózon
    • Vendég a kávéházban
    • (as Gózon Gyula)
    Zoltán Makláry
    • Vasutas
    • (as Makláry Zoltán)
    Margit Ladomerszky
    • A kávéház szépe
    • (as Ladomerszky Margit)
    József Kürthy
      Germaine Aussey
      Germaine Aussey
      • La fille blonde
      • (uncredited)
      Elemér Baló
      • Kávéházi vendég
      • (uncredited)
      Erzsi Bársony
      • A jegyzõné lánya
      • (uncredited)
      Anna Bíró
      • Bende Emma
      • (uncredited)
      Sándor Fülöp
      • Báli rendezõ
      • (uncredited)
      Lajos Gárdonyi
      • Vendég a kávéházban
      • (uncredited)
      Erzsi Götz
      • Kávéházi hölgy
      • (uncredited)
      Simone Héliard
        Lajos Ihász
        • Patikus
        • (uncredited)
        György Kerekes
        • Egy ficsúr
        • (uncredited)
        • Director
          • Pál Fejös
        • Writer
          • Ilona Fülöp
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        dbdumonteil

        Lonesome

        The international audience knows Paul Fejos as the man who directed the silent movie "Lonesome" in America.

        "Marie Légende Hongroise" could be subtitled " Lonesome Mary" ;it substitutes the dreary Hungarian country for the urban landscapes of New York City .But unlike the two characters of the American classic,Marie is and will stay alone.

        Marie has got no family and she works as a servant for a widow (?) and her daughter.The beginning begins as an updated " Cinderella" :there is a ball and ,unlike the fairy tale character ,she is allowed to go.But she won't meet her prince but a young bourgeois who gets her pregnant and then walks out on her.She's turned out everywhere before finding a home in a seedy place (the recurrent feature of the whores with a heart of gold) where she has her child and she's fine.But Mary has not heard the last of the establishment.

        A very simple story,told with a great simplicity ,which features at least two very good scenes in the church where Marie is gazing at a statue of the Virgin which almost comes alive.The way gorgeous Annabella is turned into a tramp walking in the church is also impressive.

        But the scenes in Heaven are all the more questionable since the movie is closer to realistic melodrama than to "legend" ,in spite of its title.

        Paul Fejos would continue his career for a while in France,with a remake of Feuillade's "Fantomas".

        Like this?try these.....

        Liliom ,Frank Borzage,1930 and its remake by Fritz Lang,1933.

        Angèle ,Marcel Pagnol,1934
        bensonj

        STRANGE MIXTURE OF ORIGINALITY AND BANALITY

        Like Fejos' LONESOME, this film shows a creative imagination combined with an undeveloped story sense and a finite talent. The events in the simple plot are telegraphed, repeated, and told very slowly. Poor Marie, hanging out clothes on the line in the front yard at midnight, is offered candy by the fiance of the lady of the house and, presto, comes the dawn. (Presumably the seduction or rape occurred right in the barren front yard, next to the road.) Marie is cast out, and can find little work. Finally, she finds herself at the door of a tavern frequented by prostitutes, facing the ferocious woman who runs the place. She is given a menial job and finds a family in the girls and a mother-figure in the manager. The character of this woman--strong, hard, inexpressive, but compassionate and just--and the actress who plays her, is by far the most complex and interesting aspect of the film. Marie suffers further at the hands of a group of do-gooders, cardboard figures as Fejos' villains tend to be. Finally she goes to a ridiculous, saccharine, kitschy heaven, where she again finds herself washing the floors. It's hard to know just how much Fejos has his tongue in his cheek with this final sequence. In fact, it's hard to pin Fejos down in general. Much of the time he seems simple-minded, even dull, but then he'll come up with an original visual idea or an unexpectedly well-observed moment or character that makes you think he has something after all.

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        • Trivia
          Film Daily-Saturday, June 22, 1935: Albany, New York - Holding that it mocks religion, justice and society generally, the Hungarian picture, Tavaszi zápor (Spring Shower), has been denied a license for exhibition in New York state.
        • Connections
          Alternate-language version of Prima dragoste (1932)
        • Soundtracks
          Modlitwa dziewicy
          (La prière d'une vierge)

          Music by Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska

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        • Release date
          • September 1, 1935 (United States)
        • Countries of origin
          • France
          • Hungary
        • Languages
          • Hungarian
          • French
        • Also known as
          • Marie, a Hungarian Legend
        • Filming locations
          • Hunnia Filmgyarban, Budapest, Hungary(Studio)
        • Production companies
          • Les Films Osso
          • Hunnia Filmstúdió
          • Osso Film Bt.
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 6 minutes
        • Color
          • Black and White
        • Sound mix
          • Mono
        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.37 : 1

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