FULL Wen die Götter lieben Mozart-Movie Austria 1942 Erna Berger, Siegmund Roth, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Dagmar Söderquist
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Wen die Götter lieben
- Composer: Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus
- Libretto: Richard Billinger, E. Strzygowski, Eduard von Borsody
- Venue & Opera Company: Studio and on location, Austria
- Recorded: 1942
- Type: Movie
- Singers: Erna Berger, Siegmund Roth, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Dagmar Söderquist
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
- Stage Director: Karl Hartl
- Stage Designer: Günter Anders
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: UFA
- TV Director: Karl Hartl
- Date Published: 1942
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: AMAZON
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
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.