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Whom the Gods Love (1942 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Whom the Gods Love' (German: 'Wen die Gtter lieben') is a 1942 Austrian historical musical film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff, and Winnie Markus. The film is a biopic of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Hake p. 157 It was made as a co-production between the giant German studio UFA and Wien-Film which had been set up following the German annexation of Austria. The film was part of a wider attempt by the Nazis to portray Mozart as an authentic German hero. Like many German biopics of the war years, it portrays the composer as a pioneering visionary.
The title refers to Mozart's middle name Amadeus (Latin for "love God") and to the aphorism "he whom the gods love, dies young" (Latin: "") from Plautus' 'Bacchides', lines 81617, and earlier Greek sources, including Homer's mention of Trophonius; Mozart died at the age of 35.
A British film of the same title had been released in 1936.
Cast
* Hans Holt as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* Irene von Meyendorff as Luisa Weber Langer
* Winnie Markus as Konstanze Weber Mozart
* Paul Hrbiger as Von Strack
* Walter Janssen as Leopold Mozart
* Rosa Albach-Retty as Frau Mozart
* Annie Rosar as Frau Weber
* Ren Deltgen as Ludwig van Beethoven
* Thea Weis as Sophie Weber
* as Josepha Weber
* Curd Jrgens as Emperor Joseph II
* Hans Siebert as Duke of Mannheim
* Richard Eybner as Baron von Gemmingen
* Fritz Imhoff as Albrechtsberger
* as Hoeffer
* as Sssmayr
* Doris Hild
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* Franz Herterich
* Otto Schmle
* Theodor Danegger
* Alfred Neugebauer
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* Hermann Erhardt
* Louise Kartousch
* Erna Berger as Singer
* Siegmund Roth as Singer
* Karl Schmitt-Walter as Singer
* Dagmar Sderquist as Singer
See also
* 'The Mozart Story' (re-edited version for the USA, 1948)
References
Bibliography
* Hake, Sabine. 'Popular Cinema of the Third Reich'. University of Texas Press, 2001.
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