God's angels are everywhere
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | God's angels are everywhere |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 96 (Austria), 87 (Germany) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Thimig |
| script |
Peter Francke Kurt Heuser |
| production | Anton Profes |
| music | Anton Profes |
| camera | Hans Schneeberger |
| cut | Henny Brünsch |
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God's angels are everywhere is an Austrian melodrama from 1948 by Hans Thimig with Attila Hörbiger and the then almost eight-year-old child actor Heiki Eis in the leading roles. Co-screenwriter Peter Francke provided the literary model with the novel “One and a Half Weidinger”.
action
Spring 1945. The Allied soldiers are deep in German Reich territory. Even the somewhat elderly Viennese Josef “Joschi” Weidinger was drafted into the Wehrmacht as well and separated from his unit in the turmoil of the last days of the war in the north German lowlands. Joschi is drawn home to Vienna, back to his roots. On his arduous and dangerous journey between enemy lines, the dispersed soldier gets to know little Florian, who like him has become homeless. "Flori", as the six-year-old is usually called, was separated from his mother, the widow of an Austrian engineer, in a low-flying attack while fleeing the enemy armies and is now looking for companion and protection from Joschi on the way home.
In fact, after all sorts of adventures and dangers, the unequal couple reached the meanwhile liberated Austrian capital unscathed on their way home via Upper and Lower Austria. On the way there, Joschi has become very fond of little Flori, and since the boy has obviously become homeless and has no family, he is only too happy to take him on as a child. But Flori's mother survived and, of course, desperately wants her son back. Joschi is reluctant to give it up, but when he realizes how much the boy is attached to his mother, he lets him go. Meanwhile, a new happiness awaits Joschi at home in the form of a woman who has been waiting for him all her life.
Production notes
God's Angels Are Everywhere was created in the autumn of 1947 and in the winter of 1947/48 in the atelier of Vienna-Sievering as well as with exterior shots in Gmunden and Wels (Upper Austria) and in Melk (Lower Austria) and was premiered on March 22, 1948 in Vienna. The film was also shown at the Locarno Film Festival in early July 1948. In Germany, God's angels are everywhere on October 26, 1949 in Bamberg.
Producer and composer Anton Profes also took over the production management. Werner Schlichting designed the film structures. Acting veteran Hans Marr gave his farewell performance in front of the camera; it was his only post-war film.
Reviews
“A comfortable mixture of comedy and drama, references to time and“ eternally valid ”, which finds the middle ground of the smallest public resistance with almost sleepwalking certainty. It can be assumed that Thimig designed many scenes with strong, dramatic potential as lightly as possible (such as the encounter with the field gendarmerie), since the viewers were then aware of what was really at stake. "
The lexicon of the international film judged: "The contemporary odyssey, staged unpretentiously, is especially endearing thanks to the two main actors."
The ORF , which had rendered outstanding services to the rescue and restoration of films believed to be lost from the early post-war years, stated: “The paraphrase of the Chaplin classic" The Kid ", which was postponed to the end of the Second World War, comes across as a good-humored road movie with serious undertones. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Criticism on filmarchiv.at
- ↑ God's angels are everywhere. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .
- ↑ God's angels are everywhere on wunschliste.de
Web links
- God's angels are everywhere in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- God's angels are everywhere at filmportal.de