Queen Louise (1927 film)
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Directed by | Karl Grune |
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Produced by | Max Glass |
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Cinematography | Arpad Viragh |
Music by | Walter Ulfig |
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Distributed by | Terra Film |
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Country | Germany |
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Queen Louise (German: Königin Luise) is a German silent historical film directed by Karl Grune and starring Mady Christians, Mathias Wieman and Anita Dorris. It was released in two separate parts slightly less than a month from each other in December 1927 and January 1928. It commenced a series of historical epics directed by Grune.[1] Art direction was by Hans Jacoby.
The film portrays the short life of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of the Prussian monarch William III.
Cast
- Mady Christians as Luise von Mecklenburg, Königin von Preussen
- Mathias Wieman as Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm III, König von Preussen
- Anita Dorris as Friederike von Mecklenberg
- Hedwig Molander as Prinzessin Radziwill
- Adele Sandrock as Gräfin Voss
- Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Prinz Louis Ferdinand
- Hedwig Wangel as Prinzessin Georg-Wilhelm von Hessen-Darmstadt
- Theodor Loos as Graf Hardenberg
- Charles Vanel as Napoleon
- Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Königin-Witwe Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig
- Alfred Döderlein as Prinz Louis
- Hans Mierendorff as König Friedrich Wilhelm II.
- Lotte Lorring as Madame Ritz
- Antonie Jaeckel as Gelieu, Erzieherin der Prinzessinnen
- Karl Elzer as Köckeritz, Adjutant des Kronprinzen
- Egon von Jordan as Alexander - Kaiser von Rußland
- Alfred Gerasch as Talleyrand - Napoleons Minister
- Ferdinand von Alten as Bertrand
- Hans Wassmann as Graf Haugwitz
- Eduard Rothauser as Herzog von Mecklenburg
- Max Pohl as Fürst Blücher
- Emil Heyse as Arzt Dr. Hufeland
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 175
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press, 1999.
External links
Categories:
- 1927 films
- 1928 films
- 1920s historical films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German historical films
- German silent feature films
- German drama films
- Films directed by Karl Grune
- Films set in Berlin
- Films set in the 1790s
- Films set in the 1800s
- Biographical films about German royalty
- Prussian films
- Terra Film films
- Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Depictions of Napoleon on film
- Cultural depictions of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s German film stubs
- Historical film stubs