The Great Awakening (film)

The Great Awakening
Spanish theatrical poster
Directed by	Reinhold Schünzel
Written by	Howard Estabrook Nicholas Joy
Produced by	Douglas MacLean William Sekely Alexander Korda (uncredited)
Starring	Alan Curtis Ilona Massey Billy Gilbert Binnie Barnes Sig Arno
Edited by	James Smith
Production company	Gloria Pictures
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September 10, 1941 (1941-09-10)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$600,000[1]

The Great Awakening is a 1941 American historical musical drama film starring Alan Curtis, Ilona Massey, and Billy Gilbert. Directed by Reinhold Schünzel, the film was produced by Gloria Pictures Corporation, and released by United Artists. Miklós Rózsa was responsible for the musical direction, though he later expunged the title from his filmography, because he considered it a travesty of the great composer's life story.

The film is a biopic covering part of the life of Austrian composer Franz Schubert flees from Vienna. It is sometimes known by the alternative titles New Wine (original title), One Romantic Night (USA reissue title) or Schubert, the Melody Master, was the last directed by Schünzel who was an exile from Nazi Germany.^[2]

Austrian composer Franz Schubert flees from Vienna to avoid conscription, ending up in Hungary where he falls in love.^[3]

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Langman, Larry (2000). Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0681-4.

• The Great Awakening at IMDb

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