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An Angel on Wheels is a Allemand film of genre Comedy directed by Géza von Radványi released in USA on 9 september 1959 with Romy Schneider
An Angel on Wheels (1959)
Ein Engel auf Erden
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Add to a movie listAn Angel on Wheels is a 1959 French-West German romantic comedy film starring Romy Schneider, Henri Vidal and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
It was also known in France as Mademoiselle Ange and in Germany as Ein Engel auf Erden.
It had admissions in France of 891,190.
Synopsis
Un ange, déguisé en hôtesse de l'air, empêche le suicide d'un homme, qui veut passer à l'acte par désespoir amoureux.Actors
Romy Schneider
(Line / The Angel)
Henri Vidal
(Pierre Chaillot)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
(Michel Barrot)
Margarete Haagen
(Chief of Angels)
Jean Brochard
(Line's father)
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