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Whom the Gods Love (German:Wen die Götter 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. 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: "quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur") from Plautus' Bacchides, lines 816–17, 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.
Original Release
12/05/1942
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hans Holt | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Mozart |
Irene von Meyendorff | Luisa Weber Langer / Aloisia Lange |
Winnie Markus | Konstanze Weber Mozart / Konstanze Mozart |
Doris Hild | |
Paul Hörbiger | Von Strack |
Walter Janssen | Leopold Mozart |
Rosa Albach-Retty | Frau Mozart / Anna Maria Mozart |
Georg Lorenz | |
Annie Rosar | Frau Weber |
René Deltgen | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Directors
Writers
Richard Billinger, E. Strzygowski, Eduard von Borsody
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hans Holt | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Mozart |
Irene von Meyendorff | Luisa Weber Langer / Aloisia Lange |
Winnie Markus | Konstanze Weber Mozart / Konstanze Mozart |
Doris Hild | |
Paul Hörbiger | Von Strack |
Walter Janssen | Leopold Mozart |
Rosa Albach-Retty | Frau Mozart / Anna Maria Mozart |
Georg Lorenz | |
Annie Rosar | Frau Weber |
René Deltgen | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Thea Weis | Sophie Weber |
Susi Witt | Josepha Weber |
Curd Jürgens | Emperor Joseph II |
Pepi Glöckner-Kramer | |
Franz Herterich | |
Otto Schmöle | |
Hans Siebert | Duke of Mannheim |
Richard Eybner | Baron von Gemmingen |
Fritz Imhoff | Albrechtsberger / Johann Georg Albrechtsberger |
Karl Blühm | Hoeffer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Karl Hartl | Producer |