Angels that burn their wings

Movie
Original title	Angels that burn their wings
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1970
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Zbyněk Brynych
script	Herbert Reinecker
production	Walter Tjaden
music	Peter Thomas
camera	Josef Vaniš
cut	Sophie Mikorey
occupation
Susanne Uhlen : Moni Dingeldey Jan Koester : Robert Susmeit Ellen Umlauf : Mrs. Dingeldey Harald Baerow : Wallich Jochen Busse : Kirr Manfred Spies : Krüss Siegfried Rauch : 1st Commissioner Karl-Otto Alberty : 2nd Commissioner Liane Hielscher : Elvira Schramm Hertha von Walther : Mrs. Kuhn Wolfgang Völz : Mr. Stein Nadja Tiller : Hilde Susmeit Werner Kreindl : Bertram Susmeit

Angels Burning Their Wings is a German feature film from 1970 directed by the Czechoslovakian director Zbyněk Brynych . Herbert Reinecker wrote the script . The main roles are cast with Susanne Uhlen , Ellen Umlauf , Jan Koester and Nadja Tiller . The film premiered on September 18, 1970 in Germany.

action

Robert Susmeit, around the age of 15 or 16, watched his mother disappear with one of her lovers in an apartment that a student made available for a fee for relevant purposes. When the lover goes swimming in the hotel, he is killed by Robert. The process was observed by the girl Moni Dingeldey, who is about the same age and lives with her mother in the hotel, where she always catches lovers in the bar and takes them upstairs. While the police are looking for the murderer and Roberts' suspicious parents are looking for their son, the two youngsters pass the time together, the girl a precocious thing, sly, with slightly insane features, and the boy a bit clumsy. Until Moni's mother goes into the room next door with a friend and Moni kills the man with a whiskey bottle in bed, following a tried and tested model. Chased by the hotel residents, both of them throw themselves from the roof, which the young inspector has to look at helplessly and with watering eyes.

criticism

The lexicon of international films succinctly describes the strip as a "badly unsuccessful colportage". Even the Protestant film observer has no better opinion of the work: “Tear in the style of the flat-fatal problem film, as it was common ten or twenty years ago, with involuntarily comical interludes. Irrelevant. "

Web links

• Angels who burn their wings in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 408/1970, pp. 407–408
2. ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 867.