The Madonna with the two faces

Movie
German title	The Madonna with the two faces
Original title	The Miracle
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1959
length	121 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Irving rapper
script	Frank Butler , Jean Rouverol
production	Henry Blanke
music	Elmer Bernstein
camera	Ernest Haller
cut	Frank Bracht
occupation
Carroll Baker : Teresa Roger Moore : Capt. Michael Stuart Walter Slezak : Flaco Vittorio Gassman : Guido Katina Paxinou : La Roca Dennis King : Casimir, Conde de Altimira Gustavo Rojo : Cordoba Isobel Elsom : Mother Superior Carlos Rivas : Carlitos Torin Thatcher : Duke of Wellington Elspeth March : Sister Dominica Daria Massey : Gata Lester Matthews : Capt. John Boulting Victor Lundin : Sergeant Madlyn Rhue : Nun Norma Varden : Mrs. MacGregor

The Madonna with the Two Faces (original title: The Miracle ) is an American romance film from 1959 . The main roles were played by Carroll Baker and Roger Moore . Irving Rapper was responsible for the direction . This literary film adaptation of Vollmoellers's Das Mirakel is more based on the German silent film Das Mirakel from 1912 than on the play.

action

At the beginning of the 19th century, the novice Teresa nursed the British lieutenant Michael back to health in a monastery in Spain. Teresa falls in love with him and breaks with her old life in the monastery and leaves it to look for Michael.

criticism

“Emotional love adventures of an escaped novice who later returned repentant at the time of the Napoleonic wars in Spain, framed by a miracle of Mary. Very strangely staged as half an operetta theater. "

- Lexicon of international film

“In terms of records and legends, this classic religious expression had a remarkably reverential, if not mystical, quality on the stage, where it was typically performed against the backdrop of a massive cathedral. But after Butler had rewritten it for Warner for the screen, it is gossipy, colorful and vulgar, and only starts in a church. "

- Bosley Crowther in the New York Times

background

Originally, the film was to be directed in 1942 by Wolfgang Reinhardt , the son of the Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt , who directed the German silent film.

Web links

• The Madonna with two faces in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Madonna with the two faces in the German dubbing file
• The Madonna with two faces at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Madonna with the Two Faces. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Bosley Crowther : The Miracle (1959) on nytimes.com, November 13, 1959, accessed December 29, 2011
3. ↑ Religion: Celluloid Revival on time.com from April 24, 1944 (English), accessed on December 29, 2011