The silent angel
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| Original title | The silent angel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Reinl |
| script | Harald Reinl Maria von der Osten-Sacken |
| production | Eva-Film, Wiesbaden ( Paul Hans Fritsch ) |
| music | Bernhard Eichhorn |
| camera | Walter Riml |
| cut | Hilde E. Grabow |
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The Silent Angel is a German melodrama by Harald Reinl from 1954.
action
Sylvia Verena, ballet master at the opera, meets young Angelika in a village. The girl has been unable to speak since she fell from a tree three years ago and has learned over time to make herself understood through gestures. Sylvia is impressed by Angelika's graceful, expressive movements and suggests that her mother send Angelika to ballet class. Mother Helmer has another child, the now adult graphic designer Andreas. He got on the wrong track when he drew counterfeit money for the gang of the seedy Kat. After several years in prison, he is now being released early. The pastor in his hometown, who teaches Angelika in sign language, makes it clear to Mother Helmer that her excessive upbringing also led to Andreas' situation.
Andreas is welcomed in freedom by his good friend Spoon, who places him in his mother's summer house. When Andreas couldn't find a job, Spoon also involved him in delivering the newspaper. They share the income and plan to open their own kiosk at some point. Meanwhile, Angelika is registered for ballet lessons by her mother at the opera. Sylvia takes care of the girl personally and gives her private lessons so that she can catch up with the other girls more quickly. Angelika is very talented and learns quickly. This makes the group's previous prodigy, Charlott, especially envious. She makes inquiries about Angelika and learns that her brother has been in prison. At the next opportunity, she accuses Angelika of stealing her money and reveals her brother's past. Angelika flees to her mother in the country, but Sylvia brings her back to the city. Sylvia is engaged to the professionally successful Robert. He demands that she quit her job. She initially agrees, but keeps her job so that she can continue teaching Angelika. There is a break between Sylvia and Robert.
A new ballet is to be added to the program at the opera. While Sylvia supports Angelika in the lead role, her competitor Miss Küfner wants Charlott to be cast in the role. Both teachers begin to prepare their students for the role. Meanwhile, Andreas is forbidden by Löffel's boss to continue delivering newspapers. The young men are now planning to buy a kiosk in order to be independent. While reviewing an offer, Andreas meets with Kats, who is selling the kiosk. Kats wants to drag Andreas back into his machinations, but Andreas strictly refuses to work with him. Angelika, who was there during the conversation, secretly goes to Kats to ask him to run the kiosk for her brother. Kats promises her to sell Andreas the kiosk cheaply if she does him a favor: she should run errands for him. Angelika agrees, but she doesn't know that Kats sold the kiosk a long time ago and that he only uses it to get rid of badly forged 20-mark bills.
The rehearsal, at which the casting of the leading ballet role will be decided, is coming up. Charlott sticks a nail in Angelica's ballet shoe. Angelika still manages to dance her role convincingly. Only when her ballet shoe is stained with blood does she pass out. Kats forces Angelika to keep running errands for him despite her foot injury. Robert sees her on the street and takes her to a hospital. He also makes up with Sylvia. In the meantime, the police are tracking down the fake 20-mark bills and get Angelika's lead. The young Elfie, who works in the ice cream shop and met Angelika and Andreas, fell in love with Andreas, wanted to get him a job as a graphic designer with her uncle and learned from him that Andreas was in jail for counterfeiting money. Angelika paid her with a false note; In front of the police, Elfie denies that she knows Angelika, but informs Andreas. He's looking for Kats. A duel ensues in which Kats draws a pistol. In the scramble, Andreas shoots him and flees. He thinks he has shot Kats, says goodbye to Angelika and hurries away. Angelika follows him and falls from a high staircase. She is hospitalized; Andreas turns himself in to the police. Because Kats survives and confesses that the pistol belongs to him, Andreas is acquitted for self-defense. He later got a job as a graphic designer in a major publishing house through Elfie's mediation and met Elfie. Angelika overcame her speech blockage by falling. A little later she appeared in the lead role in the ballet and thrilled the audience, whom she thanked after the performance.
production
The silent angel was filmed from July 14th to September 6th, 1954 in Wiesbaden , where the studio was, as well as in Kastel , Eltville am Rhein and near Kaub in the Rhine Valley. The ballet scenes were recorded in the State Theater in Wiesbaden . The costumes were created by Hannelore Wippermann , the film structures are by Heinrich Beisenherz . Leila Negra can be heard in the film with the song A bouquet of forget-me-nots , which was written by Hans Carste , but her singing is doubled by another actress.
The film premiered on October 21, 1954 in Würzburg Bavaria .
criticism
For the film service , the film was “colorless, sterile and far too sentimental.” “Without words: we don't talk about it,” summarized Cinema .
Awards
From the Film Review Board received the silent angels , the predicate "valuable".
Web links
- The silent angel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The silent angel at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The silent angel . In: Christina Pöschl, Miriam Trescher, Reinhard Weber: Harald Reinl. The director who brought Winnetou, Edgar Wallace and the Nibelungen to the cinema . Reinhard Weber Fachverlag for film literature, Landshut 2011, pp. 52–53.
- ↑ The silent angel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The silent angel on cinema.de
- ↑ The silent angel . In: Christina Pöschl, Miriam Trescher, Reinhard Weber: Harald Reinl. The director who brought Winnetou, Edgar Wallace and the Nibelungen to the cinema . Reinhard Weber specialist publisher for film literature, Landshut 2011, p. 53.