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The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)

The Angel with the Trumpet poster
Directed by
Anthony Bushell
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
14A
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows an Austrian aristocrat from her family's rise to power through their decline and her death after the Nazi annexation of Austria. It covers decades of her life in Vienna.

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What happens

The Angel with the Trumpet is a 1950 British drama film directed by Anthony Bushell and starring Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney and Norman Wooland. Based on a novel by Ernst Lothar, the film follows the rise and fall of an Austrian aristocrat and her eventual death following the Anschluss. The film is a remake of a 1948 Austrian film Der Engel mit der Posaune. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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