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Engel, die ihre Flügel verbrennen

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  • 1h 33m
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7.2/10
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Engel, die ihre Flügel verbrennen (1970)
CrimeDramaRomance
Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the ma... Read allMunich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed b... Read allMunich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated s... Read all
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80
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    • Zbynek Brynych
    • Herbert Reinecker
  • Stars
    • Susanne Uhlen
    • Jan Koester
    • Ellen Umlauf
    • Zbynek Brynych
    • Herbert Reinecker
  • Stars
    • Susanne Uhlen
    • Jan Koester
    • Ellen Umlauf
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    • 2User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Susanne Uhlen
    Susanne Uhlen
    • Moni Dingeldey
    Jan Koester
    • Robert Susmeit
    Ellen Umlauf
    Ellen Umlauf
    • Frau Dingeldey
    Harald Baerow
    • Wallich
    Jochen Busse
    Jochen Busse
    • Kirr
    • (as Joachim Busse)
    Manfred Spies
    • Krüss
    Siegfried Rauch
    Siegfried Rauch
    • 1. Kommissar
    Karl-Otto Alberty
    Karl-Otto Alberty
    • 2. Kommissar
    Liane Hielscher
    • Elvira Schramm
    Hertha von Walther
    • Frau Kuhn
    Wolfgang Völz
    • Herr Stein
    Nadja Tiller
    Nadja Tiller
    • Hilde Susmeit
    Werner Kreindl
    • Herr Bertram Susmeit
    Fred Albert
    • Bademeister
    • (uncredited)
    Dieter Barell
    • Kellner
    • (uncredited)
    Ursula Blauth
    Ursula Blauth
    • Ingrid
    • (uncredited)
    Zbynek Brynych
    Zbynek Brynych
    • Man in the hotel lobby
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Fackler
    • Angestellter
    • (uncredited)
      • Zbynek Brynych
      • Herbert Reinecker
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    7/10
    One of Brynych's better sleaze efforts.
    As I've noted in another review, it's hard to watch a Brynych film without thinking of beautifully crafted films like Transport From Paradise and The Fifth Horseman Is Fear. These films that show the haunted nature behind people's everyday decision making under extreme circumstances.

    However Brynych escaped Czechoslovakia for the lurid sex films of West Germany and it's hard to reconcile that this work is from the same man. One almost has to pretend that it's the work of two different men with the same name.

    Angels With Burnt Wings is the story of a boy who disapproves of his mother's infidelity so much so that when her latest lover goes for a swim, the son, in a fit of rage, murders him. The event does not go unnoticed as hidden from view is a girl who takes him in and hides him from the growing frenzy of who is the killer.

    Of the three that were made in 1970, this is by far the best told of the three. The acting is decent, the plotting is sharp and, of course, the soundtrack is the main star of the show.

    But one cannot fail to see a sort of puritan streak come out that feels slightly at odds with the film itself. The film wants to have its cake and eat it too at the same time and, try as they might, everyone can't help but feel just a little two dimensional at the best of times. This contrasts again with Transport... and The Fifth Horseman but also his segment in Dialóg where the characters are warmer and more empathetic. Whether this is something that's lost in translation or just a case of taking a devil-may-care attitude towards the scripts, I'm not sure but watching this film, I'm inclined to miss the 60s Czech Brynych. A film-maker with a compassionate touch lost in the murky depths of political history.
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      • September 18, 1970 (West Germany)
      • West Germany
      • German
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      • Munich, Bavaria, Germany
    • Production company
      • Caro-Film GmbH
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    • 1 hour 33 minutes
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