No Time for Flowers is a 1952 American romantic comedy film directed by Don Siegel and starring Viveca Lindfors, Paul Christian and Ludwig Stössel.[2] Featuring a Cold War setting and some location shooting in Vienna, it was distributed by RKO Pictures.

Plot

A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attaché who has just arrived from the United States.[3]

Cast

Critical Appaisal

Judith M. Kass offers this assessment: “No Time for Flowers is a largely unsuccessful attempt at comedy in which Viveca Lindfors portrays a Ninotchka-like Czech, eager for both advancement in the Communist world and in the luxuries of the West.[4]

Theme

Biographer Judith M. Kass notes this thematic element in the film:

The fear that one can incriminate oneself or others, no matter how innocent a remark may be, and that no one can be trusted, are the main causes for anxiety in No Time for Flowers. Coupled with economic deprivation, this spiritual poverty is even harder to bear. Existing with these tribulations is a good-natured, more natural desire to be open, free to fall in love, and try for some happiness, however limited.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "No Time for Flowers: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
  2. ^ Mayer p.348
  3. ^ Kass, 1975 p. 110-111: Plot sketch.
  4. ^ Kass, 1975 p. 100
  5. ^ Kass, 1975 p. 111

Sources

  • Kass, Judith M. (1975). Don Siegel: The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 4 (1975 ed.). New York: Tanvity Press. p. 207. ISBN 0-498-01665-X.
  • Mayer, Geoff. Historical Dictionary of Crime Films. Scarecrow Press, 2012.


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Time_for_Flowers
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