The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1959 film)

The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
Directed by	Kurt Hoffmann
Written by	Charles Terrot (novel) Günter Neumann Heinz Pauck
Produced by	Georg Witt
Starring	Nana Osten Henry Vahl Ullrich Haupt
Cinematography	Sven Nykvist
Edited by	Hilwa von Boro
Music by	Franz Grothe
Production company	Georg Witt-Film
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release date	12 February 1959 (1959-02-12)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (German: Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte) is a 1959 West German fantasy comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Nana Osten, Henry Vahl and Ullrich Haupt. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film is based on the novel of the same title by Charles Terrot which had previously been made into a British film in 1954.

Plot

An angel arrives on Earth tasked with improving the world.

The main task involves conning a pawnbroker (who specialises in old musical instruments) into believing her harp is valuable. This is set up by organising a "chance meeting" in a pub and convincing him, through a man talking, that he could obtain a valuable harp.

Cast

• Nana Osten as Der Engel ("the angel")
• Henry Vahl as Joshua Webmann
• Ullrich Haupt as Hinrich Prigge
• Matthias Fuchs as Klaas Henning
• Tatjana Sais as Frau Henning
• Dunja Movar as Lissy Haverkamp
• Eva Vaitl as Frau Haverkamp
• Hans Cossy as Herr Haverkamp
• Gisela Peltzer as Frau Petersen
• Lina Carstens as Frau Feuerhake
• Monika John as Elise
• Horst Tappert as Herr Parker
• Alexander Hunzinger as Schätzer
• Marie Ferron
• Carl Simon
• Wolfgang Dohnberg
• Peter Tost
• Michael Paryla
• Gabriele Adam
• Henry Lorenzen
• Lisa Helwig
• Fritz Wepper

See also

• List of films about angels

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp at IMDb