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The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (German: Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte) is a 1959 West German fantasy comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Nana Osten, Henry Vahl and Ullrich Haupt.^[1] It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film is based on the novel of the same title by Charles Terrot which had previously been made into a British film in 1954.

Plot

An angel arrives on earth tasked with improving the world.

The main task involves conning a pawnbroker (who specialises in old musical instruments) into believing her harp is valuable. This is set up by organising a "chance meeting" in a pub and convincing him, through a man talking, that he could obtain a valuable harp.

Cast

• Nana Osten as Der Engel (= 'the angel')
• Henry Vahl as Joshua Webmann
• Ullrich Haupt as Hinrich Prigge
• Matthias Fuchs as Klaas Henning
• Tatjana Sais as Frau Henning
• Dunja Movar as Lissy Haverkamp
• Eva Vaitl as Frau Haverkamp
• Hans Cossy as Herr Haverkamp
• Gisela Peltzer as Frau Petersen
• Lina Carstens as Frau Feuerhake
• Monika John as Elise
• Horst Tappert as Herr Parker
• Alexander Hunzinger as Schätzer
• Marie Ferron
• Carl Simon
• Wolfgang Dohnberg
• Peter Tost
• Michael Paryla
• Gabriele Adam
• Henry Lorenzen
• Lisa Helwig
• Fritz Wepper

See also

• List of films about angels

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp at IMDb