Franz Schubert (film)
- Heinrich Schweiger: Franz Schubert
- Aglaya Schmid: Therese Grob
- Hans Thimig: Father Schubert
- Karl bosses: Heinrich Grob
- Maria Ice: Madame Schechner
- Rolf Wanka: Franz Schober
- Louis Soldan: Moritz von Schwind
- Michael Janisch: Bergmann
- Anni Korin: Netty
- Erwin Strahl: Johann Mayerhofer
- Karl Mittner: Ferdinand Schubert
- Fritz Hinz- Fabricius: Court Opera singer Vogl
- Fritz Imhoff: Schmieder Master
- Richard Eybner: Court Theatre Secretary
- Chariklia Baxevanos: Young girl
- Senta Wengraf
- Fred Hennings
- Otto Tressler
- Franz Pfaudler
- Alma Seidler
- Susanne Engelhart
- Karl Ehmann
- Marianne Gerzner
- Franz Herterich
- Gisa worm
Franz Schubert - A life in two sentences is an Austrian biopic from 1953, the alternate title of the film is Franz Schubert -. Unfinished Life.
Action
Franz Schubert works as a student assistant at his father. But in his spare time is dedicated to the young man who Ludwig van Beethoven as his unattainable model assesses, to composing. Since it is denied public recognition, his friends put on the music publisher Diabelli for a public performance of Schubert's music. At a reception, in which he plays to his Ave Maria, he learns the singer Therese Grob know.
Schubert decides to abandon the teaching profession and devote himself entirely to music, and draws with his friends, the poets Franz von Schober, Johann Mayerhofer and the painter Moritz von Schwind one. Here it comes the inspiration for the setting of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ballad Erlkönig.
Schubert's friends encourage him to play in public. He and Therese, who sings his songs, are a couple. Both deny with a performance of Schubert's songs their livelihood. But Schubert are doubts about whether he can express himself adequately in the song, and therefore decides to turn to the composition of symphonies and operas. When Schubert is applying for the post of Vice- Kapellmeister, Therese enough at Court Theatre Secretary Schubert's latest symphony, Unfinished, "a. At the rehearsals for his latest opera, there will be differences since the singer the lead role keeps her vocal is too difficult; the publisher Tobias Haslinger and Anton Diabelli reject his music. Even the initially promising application as Vice-Kapellmeister proves to be a failure. Thus, the deposited Schubert decides to go to secure the livelihood of his songs on tour; in this period created the Winter Journey.
After his return, Schubert decides to take on Beethoven lessons in counterpoint, but afraid to make contact with his great role model. A short time later, however, gets plagued by health problems Schubert visit from Beethoven's secretary Anton Schindler. The ailing Beethoven Schubert sends some Goethe poems set to music, as Schubert is in his opinion the better song composer. When Schubert Beethoven wants to visit, but it has come too late Beethoven is deceased; at his funeral Schubert is one of the torchbearers. The success of a concert with his music takes the always sickly expectant Schubert true no longer correct; a year after his example he dies.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film writes, the film formed under Soviet license in occupied Vienna was a " somewhat lengthy character sketch of the great composer (1797-1828), the other of Schubert romances to " dissociate, " by a moody, inhibited, misunderstood people "show.