No Time for Flowers explained

No Time for Flowers
Director:	Don Siegel
Producer:	Mort Briskin Maurie M. Suess
Screenplay:	Hans Wilhelm László Vadnay
Starring:	Viveca Lindfors Paul Christian Ludwig Stössel
Music:	Herschel Burke Gilbert
Cinematography:	Tony Braun
Editing:	Henrietta Brunsch
Studio:	Morjay Productions
Distributor:	RKO Pictures
Runtime:	83 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

No Time for Flowers is a 1952 American romantic comedy film directed by Don Siegel and starring Viveca Lindfors, Paul Christian and Ludwig Stössel.^[1] 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.^[2]

Cast

• Viveca Lindfors as Anna Svoboda
• Paul Christian as Karl Marek
• Ludwig Stössel as Papa
• Adrienne Gessner as Mama
• Peter Preses as Emil Dadak
• Manfred Inger as Kudelka
• Peter Czejke as Stefan Svoboda
• Fred Berger as Anton Novotny
• Oskar Wegrostek as Johann Burian
• Helmut Janosch as Milo
• Hilde Jaeger as Mrs. Pilski
• Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Flower Woman
• Reinhold Seigert as Police Guard
• Willi Schumann as Police Sergeant
• Ilka Windish as Woman Drunk
• Anton Mitterwurzer as Sedlacek
• Teo Prokop as Czech peasant
• Robert Eckert as Taxi driver
• Peter Brand as First soldier
• Karl Schwetter as Second soldier

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.^[3]

Theme

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

Sources

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

External links

• • News: Movie Review : No Time for Flowers (1952) At the Normandie . New York Times . December 26, 1952 . October 3, 2011.
• News: No Time For Flowers . TV Guide . October 3, 2011.

Notes and References

1. Mayer p.348
2. Kass, 1975 p. 110-111: Plot sketch.
3. Kass, 1975 p. 100