
Almost Angels
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- 1962
- 93 min
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:classical music plays!
:boys singing!
:indistinct chattering!
Maybe you can hear the train
entering the station,
bringing the choirboys home to Vienna
after their four-month tour of America.
:cheering!
:boys singing in German!
- Hello, Max.
- Oh, good to see you.
- And you, Herr Director?
- How are the boys? Are they well?
They are fine, all of them.
Don't they sound like it?
:boys continue singing in German!
- Welcome back, Max.
- Freddy. Hi, boys.
- Hello, Peter. Had a good time?
- Yes, thanks, sir.
All ready for school tomorrow, huh?
:chuckles!
Harry, Welcome home.
- Skip,
- l brought him for you.
Thanks.
l wish l could go to America.
How do you get in the choir?
You give an audition.
What's an audition?
You sing for the teachers
and Director Eisinger.
A song, you mean?
Mm. l've got to find my parents.
Hey, l can sing.
You can?
Can l join the choir?
Will you be going on another trip soon?
- l guess so.
- Where to?
l don't know.
Japan, maybe, or Australia.
- Dad, Mother,
- Peter, darling.
Hello, son.
:man! Hey, Toni.
Come on.
A fine thing.
So busy you can't even say hello, huh?
Sorry, Dad. Hello.
Dad, have you ever been to Australia?
Of course not.
Now, listen, Toni,
l've got a big surprise for you.
Guess what?
You're going to drive the train
into the shed.
How about that, huh?
Mom, they're going
Oh, are they, dear?
- You always say l sing well, don't you?
- Mm.
Now, Toni, you'll be driving a train
like this yourself one day.
Maybe even bigger. So now's the time
to learn, come on. First lesson.
Pull that.
:whistle blows!
:singing high note!
:plays notes on piano!
Very good. All right, you can sit down.
Uh, Felix Meinl, please.
Now, Felix, l want you to sing
a C-major scale, all right?
- Yes, sir.
- Now.
:plays note on piano!
:sings musical scale!
:singing continues!
That's Felix now. Pretty good, eh?
Mm-hm.
- Your boy sung yet?
- No.
- Only two vacancies, you know.
- Only two?
Shh. Listen.
Good.
:continues singing!
Do you hear that?
Clear as a bell.
- How old is your boy?
- He'll be 1 2 in January.
Hm. They like them young, you know.
Felix isn't ten yet.
:sighs!
:sighs!
l wouldn't worry.
lt's the voice that matters.
lt's a nice-looking building, isn't it?
l wish they could live at home, though.
They look after them well.
:boy singing!
That's Friedel now.
Your boy?
Mm-mm. He's an orphan.
Sings in the village choir.
l'm the organist.
Uh-huh.
- He sings well.
- Mm. l taught him everything he knows.
:Friedel yodels!
:woman chuckles!
What's he doing?
:continues yodeling!
:continues yodeling!
:song ends!
That's just what
l told him not to sing.
:chuckling! l like it. lt's fun.
Maybe.
But it won't get him into the choir.
- :
boy singing!- Shh.
Your boy?
Mm-hm.
:sings musical scale!
Mm-hm. You have a song there,
haven't you?
- Yes, sir.
- Go ahead, then.
:plays song on piano!
:sings classical music
in foreign language!
:singing continues!
:song ends!
- When did this come?
- Yesterday.
- Huh?
- Well, you were tired last night.
Vienna Boys Choir?
Augarten Palace? What's this?
''ln connection with the audition
given by Toni Fiala...''
What audition?
Did he give an audition?
- Yes, he did.
- When?
Last week.
- He sang beautifully.
- Oh, did he?
And may l ask who arranged it?
Well, l did, of course.
l wrote to Herr Eisinger,
the director, and he...
Fixed it all up on your own,
without a word to me.
- Behind my back.
- Well, l had to.
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