The famous Austrian actress Maria Schell distinguished herself throughout her remarkable career for her highly emotional acting, with which she often lent her face to women who were both vulnerable and strong-willed at the same time. So much so that she was nicknamed by her colleague Oskar Werner Seelchen – little soul.
The Angel with the Trumpet, the successful feature film by Karl Hartl from 1948 and freely adapted from the novel The Vienna Melody, written by Ernst Lothar in 1946, is a family saga and faithful portrait of around sixty years of Austrian history, which successfully mixes the two different points of view – that of Hartl himself, as well as the point of view from the original novel.