The singing angels of Tyrol
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The singing angels of Tyrol |
| Original title | Say yes, mom |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Lehner |
| script | Herma Costa-Pruscha |
| production | Zenith-Filmproduktion Lehner & Co., Vienna, Benesch-Filmproduktion, Innsbruck |
| music | Frank Filip |
| camera | Alfons Benesch |
| cut | Margarete Egle |
| occupation | |
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The Singing Angels of Tyrol is an Austrian homeland film by Alfred Lehner from 1958.
action
The twelve-year-old Evi is often alone: her mother Nora is a busy actress and her father Erik is a writer, who must not be disturbed in his work. Evi and Erik go on the long-planned vacation trip to Tyrol alone because Nora got the chance to make a film with the important director Roberts. Despite resistance from Erik, Nora takes her chance and the sensitive Evi worries once again about her parents' marriage.
In a small Tyrolean village, father and daughter stay in a hotel and Evi quickly becomes friends with little Pauli. He has a tame duck, whom he calls Bertha, and is part of the Engel family, who make music. He plays eight instruments himself and teaches Evi to play dulcimer . She is often with the Engel family, where she not only experiences a tightly knit family, but also receives the love that she lacks in her family. Even on vacation, Evi worries about her family, as she sees her father flirting with the beautiful Spanish girl Lolita Alvarez.
Evi is unusually exhausted after a mountain excursion. When Erik buys her a dulcimer from an instrument maker and a strong thunderstorm rises in his absence in the village, Evi fled to the Engel family full of fear. The next day she has a fever and the doctor refers her to a hospital in Innsbruck for an examination . There the doctors diagnose an inflammation of the heart muscle and give Evi little chance of survival.
The Engel family is now on a major international tour, but wants to be back in Tyrol for Christmas. Erik brings his wife to bed, who was courted by Roberts, but always thought of Evi and her husband. Erik and Nora suspect that Evi will not live until Christmas and manipulate their calendar so that they finally celebrate Christmas with their daughter in October without Evi noticing the dizziness. The Engel family also rushed back from their tour when they heard about Evi's health. When Evi is driven into the hospital ward, which is decorated for Christmas, and the Engel family sings Heitschi Bumbeidschi - their favorite song - both the attending physician, Erik and Nora notice that Evi's appearance has improved significantly, so she is no longer as sick as she was Looks like yesterday.
production
The Singing Angels of Tyrol was one of the films that cemented Christine Kaufmann's status as the most sought-after child star of her time. As in Rosen-Resli from 1954 and subsequent films by Christine Kaufmann, singing children were the key to solving the problems of adults. Actors from the Engel family were there - in contrast to mother and father Engel - the real seven children of the family of musicians known as the " angel family", including Paul Engel .
The premiere of the film took place on September 19, 1958 in Vienna . In Germany it started on February 13, 1959.
The German distribution title borrows from Gustav Ucicky's film with the Vienna Boys' Choir Singing Angels from 1947.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film described The Singing Angels of Tyrol as "a story as it was printed two generations ago as a reading for Klein-Else" and in which the leading actress healed "through the singing of a kind of Tyrolean trap family ".
The film service saw in the Heimatfilm only "cheesy, undemanding entertainment".
Web links
- The singing angels of Tyrol in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The singing angels of Tyrol at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1987, p. 201.
- ↑ See website engelfamilie.com
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 7. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3476.
- ↑ The singing angels of Tyrol. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .