Whom the Gods Love (1942)
December 5, 1942Release Date
Whom the Gods Love (1942)
December 5, 1942Release Date

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Hans Holt
Mozart

Irene von Meyendorff
Aloisia Lange

Winnie Markus
Konstanze Mozart

Rosa Albach-Retty
Anna Maria Mozart

Paul Hörbiger
Von Strack

Doris Hild
Actress

Curd Jürgens
Emperor Joseph II

Annie Rosar
Frau Weber

René Deltgen
Ludwig van Beethoven

Fritz Imhoff
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

Georg Lorenz
Actor

Walter Janssen
Leopold Mozart

Thea Weis
Sophie Weber

Richard Eybner
Baron von Gemmingen

Erich Nikowitz
Franz Xaver Süßmayr

Karl Blühm
Hoeffer
Details.
Release DateDecember 5, 1942
Original NameWen die Götter lieben
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 52m
Genres
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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.
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