Angel without wings

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Movie
Original title Angel without wings
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1993
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Maria Theresia Wagner
script Maria Theresia Wagner
production Herbert Rimbach ,
Alena Rimbach
music Chris Walden
camera Axel Block
cut Michael Feick
occupation

Angel without wings (reference title: The angel who fell from heaven ) is a German feature film by Maria Theresia Wagner from 1993 . The film premiered at the 27th Hof International Film Festival from October 27 to 31, 1993.

action

Two girls bring their sick dog to a hermit who they hope will restore their Pollux to health. Paul lives here alone in an old factory that he retired to years ago, far from the city. Without showing himself to the children, he waits until they have left and takes care of their dog. A week later they happily pick up their Pollux in good health. As a thank you he receives small gifts from the children. Otherwise Paul is avoided by the people of the place, but that doesn't bother him.

One evening Paul witnessed a small plane crashing in the woods. He rushes over and can save a baby from the flames. From then on he is no longer alone and raises the child in the forest with him. Paul baptizes the girl Libelle and lets her grow up in his dream and story world. People consider him “crazy” because he sees the world differently from them. Paul is convinced that if you don't come up with anything, it can't happen. So he creates the world around him as he wants to see and have it for himself.

When the reporter Achim Possart with a dragon glides over the factory site away flies, the now 17-year-old dragonfly considers him a saint and want him warn the people. She is immediately fascinated and falls in love with the stranger when he reappears the next day and falls somewhat rudely to the ground with his glider. She also feels guilty because the angel may have been frightened of her and therefore fell from heaven. But the sensational reporter only senses a new story behind the young girl for his newspaper and is not really interested in Dragonfly. He takes advantage of her naivete and surprises her with normal things of civilization, which the girl takes to be magic. He plays along with her game and appears to her even more believable as an angel with his "removable wings".

Libelle eagerly awaits the appearance of her angel every day. She doesn't tell her father about it because Achim asked her to. He plays Dragonfly to know her mother, which finally earns him her sympathy. To achieve his goals, he even wants to bring her a picture of her mother. But the more Achim visits Libelle, the more he gets doubts about his real goals. He has already taken countless photos of her and also secretly photographed her foster father, but he now thinks it is wrong to publish the planned story and possibly even to present Libelle on television. He fears that this will overload her and collapse her world. Achim explains to his boss, Ulla Todau, that he will cancel the job. But she doesn't accept that and sends Libelle a letter to lure her away from her father. When he notices that the girl has disappeared, he looks for her and, for the first time in his years, goes back to people. Here he meets Achim, who promises the desperate man to bring Dragonfly back to him. Ulla Todau has lured the girl to the TV studio and is preparing her surprise documentary here. Achim can find Libelle in time and bring her back to her father. However, Paul has a breakdown from the excitement and, dying, tells Dragonfly to go out into the world and live her life.

Together with Achim she buries her father, but wants to stay in the forest and sends Achim away. After days of loneliness, Achim, who has honestly fallen in love with Dragonfly, makes another attempt: he visits her with his kite glider.

In the final scene you see them both gliding through the air with the kite.

background

Angel without wings was filmed in 1992. It appeared under the reference title The Angel Who Fell From Heaven on VHS .

criticism

Kino.de wrote: “This somewhat static love melodrama of great feelings by Maria Theresa Wagner was created back in 1993, which has some parallels to Nell in terms of content, but of course never comescloseto its big sister from Hollywoodin terms ofeffort and class. But the video premiere can come up with a well-known cast [...] that could attract some film fans. "

For the critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , angel without wings was “not heavenly, but definitely lovable”. They gave the film the best possible rating, thumbs up. The lexicon of the international film judges: "Sluggish and sometimes clumsy melodrama, whose well-intentioned message is conveyed with flat symbolism and wooden dialogues."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b angel without wings. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 25, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Angels without wings at home-of-films.com.
  3. ↑ Film review retrieved from Kino.de retrieved on April 12, 2020.
  4. ↑ cf. tv-spielfilm.de