Singing angels

Movie
Original title	Singing angels
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1947
length	102 minutes
Rod
Director	Gustav Ucicky
script	Rolf Olsen Gustav Ucicky
production	Vindobona film, Vienna
music	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera	Walter Riml
cut	Rudolf Schaad
occupation
Hans Holt : Johann Michael Holzer Gustav Waldau : Joseph Haydn Käthe Dorsch : Empress Wilhelm Heim: Antonio Salieri Richard Romanowsky : District School Visitor Inge Konradi : Josefine, his daughter Gusti Wolf : Lintschi, your friend Fritz Imhoff : Zach, coffee house owner Alfred Neugebauer : Father Schubert Auguste Pünkösdy : Mother Schubert Ekkehard Arendt : Count Larisch Karl Skraup , Elsler, Haydn's servant Erich Nikowitz : von Hochstädter Ria Waldau : lady in waiting Gisa Wurm : Reserl, Haydn's housekeeper Hermann Erhardt : Dr. Long hammer Hugo Gottschlich : prison guard Fritz Eckhardt : Mayor of Liechtenthal

Singing Angels is an Austrian feature film from 1947 by Gustav Ucicky with Käthe Dorsch , Hans Holt , Gustav Waldau and the Vienna Boys' Choir in the leading roles.

The Vienna Boys' Choir today

action

Vienna, at the beginning of the 19th century. The old Joseph Haydn tells his colleague and former Mozart rival Salieri in retrospect how the Vienna Boys' Choir, known as the “Singing Angels”, was brought into being in the previous century. The young founding father and music teacher Johann Michael Holzer had to overcome all sorts of difficulties. With the active support of Haydn and the then Empress of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, however, he succeeded in forming a powerful vocal troupe from the best young singing talents among Vienna's boys, which also included the very young Franz Schubert, who later became a giant of Austrian music composition like Haydn. This was the beginning of an unparalleled musical triumph of the legendary boys' choir.

Production notes

Singing Engel was created after Ucicky was banned from directing by the Allied military authorities in 1945 because of his work on the Nazi hate film Homecoming as a result of a recommendation by the Honorary Council of the Political Investigative Committee (March 1947), and received his work permit back, “because you don't rely on your ability as a director wanted to do without. ”The film premiered in four cinemas in Vienna on December 19, 1947; the German premiere was on September 23, 1949 in Krefeld. The film was first seen in Berlin on October 28, 1949.

Karl Ehrlich took over the production management. Otto Niedermoser designed the film structures. Albert Leo Bei was responsible for the costumes. Alfred Norkus set the tone. Musical templates from Joseph Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Michael Haydn and Franz Schubert were used.

Reviews

ORF III, Culture and Information, says: “Haydn, Schubert and the Vienna Boys' Choir serve as ambassadors for the“ cultural nation of Austria ”. The destroyed St. Stephen's Cathedral appears as a symbol of the injured "Austrian soul". "

In the lexicon of the international film you can read: "Musically appealing, freshly played by the children, otherwise leisurely and conventional."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Singing Angels on ORF III
2. ↑ Singing Angels on the occasion of the re-performance in 2013 on ORF III
3. ↑ Singing angels. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 1, 2020 .  

Web links

• Singing Angels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Singing angels at filmportal.de