The Springtime of Life

1912 Drama 60 minutes Directed by Paul Garbagni

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About The Springtime of Life

A motherless girl has a hard childhood and becomes an opera singer. She later sings in her hometown, and the old life and the new one meet in the same room. Paul Garbagni directed the Swedish short. The archive title is I livets vår. Victor Sjöström, Mauritz Stiller, and Georg af Klercker are billed.

Cast & crew

More about The Springtime of Life

Abdon Hedman wrote it. Released in 1912. The listed length is 60 minutes. Selma Wiklund af Klercker, Anna Norrie, and Astrid Engelbrecht are on the catalog cast. A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-i-lifvets-vr-aka-the-springtime-of-life.

Themes

  • A motherless childhood
  • An opera career
  • A return to the hometown stage
  • opera
  • Sjöström
  • Stiller
  • Garbagni
  • I livets vår

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • Sjöström and Stiller are players here, not the directors.
  • Af Klercker is also billed, and so is Selma Wiklund af Klercker.
  • The hometown concert is where the two halves of her life meet.
  • No scene list beyond that outline is on the English record.

Scenes

  • She sings in the town she left, and the people from the old life are in the house.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-i-lifvets-vr-aka-the-springtime-of-life)