Whom the Gods Love (German: Wen die Götter lieben) is a 1942 Austrian historical musical film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff, and Winnie Markus. The film is a biopic of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.^[1] It was made as a co-production between the giant German studio UFA and Wien-Film which had been set up following the German annexation of Austria. The film was part of a wider attempt by the Nazis to portray Mozart as an authentic German hero. Like many German biopics of the war years, it portrays the composer as a pioneering visionary.

The title refers to Mozart's middle name Amadeus (Latin for "love God") and to the aphorism "he whom the gods love, dies young" (Latin: "quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur") from Plautus' Bacchides, lines 816–17, and earlier Greek sources, including Homer's mention of Trophonius; Mozart died at the age of 35.

A British film of the same title had been released in 1936.

• Hans Holt as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Irene von Meyendorff as Luisa Weber Langer
• Winnie Markus as Konstanze Weber Mozart
• Paul Hörbiger as Von Strack
• Walter Janssen as Leopold Mozart
• Rosa Albach-Retty as Frau Mozart
• Annie Rosar as Frau Weber
• René Deltgen as Ludwig van Beethoven
• Thea Weis as Sophie Weber
• Susi Witt [de] as Josepha Weber
• Curd Jürgens as Emperor Joseph II
• Hans Siebert as Duke of Mannheim
• Richard Eybner as Baron von Gemmingen
• Fritz Imhoff as Albrechtsberger
• Karl Blühm [de] as Hoeffer
• Erich Nikowitz [de] as Süssmayr
• Doris Hild
• Georg Lorenz [de]
• Pepi Glöckner-Kramer [de]
• Franz Herterich
• Otto Schmöle
• Theodor Danegger
• Alfred Neugebauer
• Ferdinand Mayerhofer [de]
• Willi Hufnagel [de]
• Hermann Erhardt
• Louise Kartousch
• Erna Berger as Singer
• Siegmund Roth as Singer
• Karl Schmitt-Walter as Singer
• Dagmar Söderquist as Singer

• The Mozart Story (re-edited version for the USA, 1948)

• Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

• Whom the Gods Love at IMDb