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Director
  
Steve Previn

Duration
  

Country
  
US

7/10
IMDb

Genres
  
Comedy, Drama, Melodrama

Language
  
English

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Writer
  
Vernon Harris
,
Robert A. Stemmle

Release date
  
September 26, 1962

Production companies
  
The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Pictures

Cast
  
Vincent Winter
(Toni Fiala),
Peter Weck
(Max Heller),
Hans Holt
(Schuldirektor Eisinger),
Bruni Löbel
(Mutter Fiala),
Fritz Eckhardt
(Vater Fiala),
Gunther Philipp
(Radiomoderator)

Similar movies
  
Amadeus (1984), Night Song (1947), The Piano Teacher (2001), As It Is in Heaven (2004), The Accompanist (1992)

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Almost Angels (also known in the UK as Born to Sing and in Austria and Germany as Ein Gruss aus Wien) is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions film about a group of boys in the Vienna Boys' Choir.

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The film shows the chorister's recruitment process, the rehearsals and the life in the institution as well. The story also conveys the value of friendship, honesty and loyalty.

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The child actors were actual members of the Vienna Boys Choir who perform several traditional Austrian songs throughout the motion picture. The filming took place in the Augarten Palais, the surroundings of Vienna and some other places of the beautiful Austrian landscape.

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In the United States, the film was released as the second half of a double bill. The first feature on the double bill was the 1962 re-release of Lady and the Tramp.

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Plot

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Tony Fiala (played by Vincent Winter) is a working-class boy whose greatest desire is to become a member of Vienna's most famous choir. His father, however, wants his son to follow in his own footsteps as an engine driver. Unlike his loving and supportive mother, he sees no future for the boy in music.

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Despite the objections, Tony manages to join the Vienna Boys' Choir. Once there, he meets Peter (played by Sean Scully), who is the leading chorister and the most experienced solo voice. When Peter finds out that Tony has a wonderful, clear treble voice, he feels threatened by the talented new boy. Peter's jealousy will prompt him to do everything in his power to ruin his rival's public performances and his good image as a boarder, to the point of endangering Tony's life. The sabotage will eventually end but the breaking of Peter's voice will change the events drastically.

Cast

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  • Vincent Winter as Tony Fiala
  • Sean Scully as Peter Schaefer
  • Peter Weck as Max Heller
  • Hans Holt as Director Eisinger
  • Bruni Löbel as Frau Fiala
  • Fritz Eckhardt as Herr Fiala
  • Denis Gilmore as Friedel Schmidt
  • Hennie Scott as Ferdie
  • Hans Christian as Choirmaster
  • Hermann Furthmosek as Choirmaster
  • Walter Regelsberger as Choirmaster

    • Songs and music

    The film takes advantage of the story itself to present traditional Austrian and German songs performed by the children. Besides the Lieder, there are some international scores and instrumental music:

    1. "Kaiser-Walzer" (Emperor Waltz by Johann Strauss Jr.)
    2. "Willkommen"
    3. "Heidenröslein" (Little Rose of the Heath) by Heinrich Werner / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    4. Unidentified piece for piano and oboe by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    5. "Der Kuckuck"
    6. "Wohlan die Zeit ist kommen" from Ludwig Schubart
    7. "Der Lindenbaum" (Am Brunnen vor dem Tore) by Franz Schubert / Wilhelm Müller
    8. "Kindersinfonie" (Toy Symphony by Leopold Mozart)
    9. "Tra la la, der Post ist da" (The Postman) by Rudolf Löwenstein
    10. "Omnes de Saba Venient" (Graduale by Joseph Eybler)
    11. "Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben"
    12. "Das Hennlein Weiss"
    13. "Guten Abend, Gute Nacht" (Good Evening, Good Night) by Johannes Brahms
    14. "Greensleeves" (Traditional English Song)
    15. "Ländler"
    16. "An Der Schönen Blauen Donau" (Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss Jr.)

    Home media

    The film was released on DVD as part of the Disney Movie Club. In addition, the title was also made available for streaming in the digital format.

    Produced and released more than two years before The Sound of Music and six years after Sissi - The Young Empress, Almost Angels uses the same formula of combining a family story, beautiful scenery, beloved music and Austrian local customs and traditions. Although it had limited distribution in theatres, the movie aroused the interest in choral institutions and in the Vienna Boys' Choir itself. Almost Angels was telecast broken up into two parts on the Disney anthology television series.

    References

    Almost Angels Wikipedia
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    Almost Angels IMDb Almost Angels themoviedb.org