Whom the Gods Love (1942 film)
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Cinematography Gunther Anders Country Austria (Part of Greater Germany) | 7.2/10 Genre Biography, Drama, History Duration Language German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 5 December 1942 Genres Music, Biographical film, Historical drama Cast (Mozart), (Emperor Joseph II), (Konstanze Mozart), (Anna Maria Mozart), (Aloisia Lange), (Frau Weber) Similar movies Karl Hartl directed Whom the Gods Love and Mozart |
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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.
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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.
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