The Angel with the Trumpet (1948 film)

The Angel with the Trumpet
Directed byKarl Hartl
Written by
Produced byKarl Ehrlich
Starring
CinematographyGünther Anders
Edited byJosefine Ramerstorfer
Music by
Production
company
Neue Wiener Filmproduktion
Distributed bySascha-Verleih
Release date
  • 19 August 1948 (1948-08-19)
Running time
138 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

The Angel with the Trumpet (German: Der Engel mit der Posaune) is a 1948 Austrian historical drama film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Paula Wessely, Helene Thimig and Maria Schell.[1] It is based on the novel of the same name by Ernst Lothar. The film was remade in Britain in 1950, under the same title.

It was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Niedermoser and Walter Schmiedel.

Plot

Family Saga set in Vienna through the Late 19th Century to 1945 post-war period. Henriette Stein the daughter of a Jewish Academic has been having an affair with Crown Prince Rudolf, an affair she ends to marry Franz Alt Head of a Piano manufacturing firm, Her marriage takes place the same day as Crown Prince Rudolf's suicide in Mayerling who sents her a farewell note, years pass by and even with children now she's tempted by another man, what will she do? And especially what will become of her when the Nazis rise to power in Austria?

Cast

References

  1. ^ Fritsche p.232

Bibliography

  • Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.