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When Fucking Spring Is in the Air (2024)

Drama | 112 minutes
3,24 35 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 112 minuten

Alternative title: Als de Fucking Lente Komt

Country: Netherlands / Germany / Belgium

Directed by: Danyael Sugawara

Stars: Ada Szczepaniak, Nadine Ignas and Cezary Łukaszewicz

IMDb score: 6,1 (195)

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When Fucking Spring Is in the Air plot

It is winter in Gdynia, Poland. This is the city of Kasia, a rebellious teenager: stubborn, fearless and conceited. When Kasia was 3 years old, her parents left Poland, hoping for a better life in Germany. They never returned and Kasia grew up with her grandmother. When her grandmother dies, Kasia is heartbroken. To top it all off, she also turns out to be pregnant.

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mrklm

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In a few days, Kasia [Ada Szczepaniak]'s life is completely turned upside down. She turns out to be pregnant by Marcin [Stanislaw Linowksi], her grandmother and caregiver Babcia [Teresa Stepien-Nowicka] dies and she has to raise €50,000 within 6 days to prevent the house she grew up in from being demolished. She has no choice but to travel to the Netherlands to ask her biological parents for help, even though she has not had contact with them for years. When she manages to track down her father [Cezary Lukaszewicz] in Amsterdam, she is in for a big surprise. At first, Kasia does not generate much sympathy, but the Szczepaniak brilliantly gives shape to the emotional journey that Kasia goes through, helped by the excellent script by Sugaware and Heleen Suèr that portrays the complex family bonds in a believable way. Szcezepaniak and Ignas are unforgettable as the sisters who quickly form a special bond after their first meeting.

kappeuter It is mainly Polish, with a good dash of German and a few sentences in Dutch. It also partly takes place in Amsterdam.

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blurp194

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It may be a bit of a tense drama, this story about Kasia who is raised by her grandmother and doesn't really know her parents at all. But it is convincingly presented and nicely acted, and everyone speaks the right languages - and sometimes everything mixed up too. That makes it a lot more convincing.

In terms of images, it's all very nice and colorful, as a contrast to the somewhat gray existence perhaps - and perhaps that's what gives me a bit of a question mark. Poland is far away, and I've never been there myself, but not so long ago I had daily contact with colleagues there, and still have many contacts in the private sphere as well. If the story had been set thirty years ago, it would have been different, but I don't think it's such a backward country anymore. Perhaps someone can say something about that first hand.

Perhaps most impressive to me was the casting - stepfather with his bright red hair, and the twins with the same hair color who look exactly like him. The mother and her two daughters, who both together and as a trio also radiate that kind of automatic familiarity that makes it feel like they are actually blood related, even though they hardly know each other. Very nicely done.

dutch flagTranslated from Dutch · View original