Fridericus Rex
Appearance
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Directed by | Arzén von Cserépy |
Written by | Hans Behrendt Bobby E. Lüthge Arzén von Cserépy |
Produced by | Arzén von Cserépy |
Starring | Otto Gebühr Albert Steinrück Gertrud de Lalsky |
Cinematography | Ernst Lüttgens Guido Seeber |
Music by | Marc Roland |
Production company | |
Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 31 January 1922 |
Country | Germany |
Languages | Silent German intertitles |
Fridericus Rex (German: Fridericus Rex - 1. Teil: Sturm und Drang) is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Arzén von Cserépy and starring Otto Gebühr, Albert Steinrück and Gertrud de Lalsky.
It portrays the life of the eighteenth century monarch Frederick the Great. Immensely popular, it was followed by three sequels and launched the Prussian film as a major German genre during the Weimar era.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Dreier and Ernö Metzner. The film was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. Location filming took place at the Charlottenburg Palace and other sites around historic Brandenburg.
Cast
- Otto Gebühr as Kronprinz Friedrich II
- Albert Steinrück as Friedrich Wilhelm I
- Gertrud de Lalsky as Sophie Dorothee, Königin von Preußen
- Erna Morena as Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, spätere Kronprinzessin von Preußen
- Eduard von Winterstein as Leopold Fürst von Anhalt-Dessau
- Charlotte Schultz
- Lilly Flohr
- Bruno Decarli
- Eugen Burg
- Theodor Burghardt
- Joseph Klein
- Adolf Klein
- Friedrich Kayßler as Graf Finkenstein
- Rolf Prasch
- Franz Groß
- Marie von Buelow
- Albert Patry
- Lili Alexandra as Doris Ritter
- Wilhelm Prager
- Heinrich George as Graf Neipperg
- Trude Hesterberg as Die Marquise von Pompadour
- Antonie Jaeckel
- Werner Krauss as Graf Kaunitz
- Maria Orska as Barberina Campanini
- Roberto Pla
- Agnes Straub as Maria Theresia
References
- ^ Schulte-Sasse p.93
Bibliography
- Linda Schulte-Sasse. Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema. Duke University Press, 1996.
External links
Categories:
- 1922 films
- 1920s historical films
- German historical films
- German epic films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- Films directed by Arzén von Cserépy
- German silent feature films
- German black-and-white films
- Prussian films
- Films set in the 1720s
- Films set in the 1730s
- Films set in the 1740s
- Films set in the 1750s
- UFA films
- Films shot at Johannisthal Studios
- Films shot in Berlin
- Cultural depictions of Frederick the Great
- Silent German film stubs