The Angel with the Trumpet (1948 film)

The Angel with the Trumpet
Directed by	Karl Hartl
Written by	Ernst Lothar (novel) Karl Hartl Franz Tassié
Produced by	Karl Ehrlich
Starring	Paula Wessely Helene Thimig Maria Schell
Cinematography	Günther Anders
Edited by	Josefine Ramerstorfer
Music by	José Padilla Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	Neue Wiener Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Sascha-Verleih
Release date	19 August 1948 (1948-08-19)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

The Angel with the Trumpet (German: Der Engel mit der Posaune) is a 1948 Austrian historical drama film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Paula Wessely, Helene Thimig and Maria Schell. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ernst Lothar. The film was remade in Britain in 1950, under the same title.

It was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Niedermoser and Walter Schmiedel.

Plot

Family Saga set in Vienna through the Late 19th Century to 1945 post-war period. Henriette Stein the daughter of a Jewish Academic has been having an affair with Crown Prince Rudolf, an affair she ends to marry Franz Alt Head of a Piano manufacturing firm, Her marriage takes place the same day as Crown Prince Rudolf's suicide in Mayerling who sents her a farewell note, years pass by and even with children now she's tempted by another man, what will she do? And especially what will become of her when the Nazis rise to power in Austria?

Cast

• Paula Wessely as Henriette Stein
• Helene Thimig as Gretel Paskiewicz, geb. Alt
• Hedwig Bleibtreu as Sophie Alt
• Alma Seidler as Pauline Drauffen, geb. Alt
• Maria Schell as Selma Rosner
• Adrienne Gessner as Fürstin Pauline Metternich
• Erni Mangold as Martha Monica Alt
• Attila Hörbiger as Franz Alt
• Paul Hörbiger as Otto Eberhard Alt
• Hans Holt as Hans Alt
• Oskar Werner as Hermann Alt
• Fred Liewehr as Kronprinz Rudolf
• Curd Jürgens as Graf Leopold Thraun
• Anton Edthofer as Kaiser Franz Josef
• Gustav Waldau as Simmerl
• Karl Günther as Oberst Paskiewicz
• Hermann Erhardt as Josef Drauffen
• Alfred Neugebauer as Kriminalbeamter
• Karl Paryla as Czerny
• Karlheinz Böhm as Franz Alt jr.

Bibliography

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• The Angel with the Trumpet at IMDb