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Tag Archives: Veit Harlan
The Golden City AKA Die goldene Stadt (1942) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Eugen Klöpfer, Annie Rosar
Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Read More »
My Son the Minister AKA Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister (1937) Veit Harlan, Hans Brausewetter, Heli Finkenzeller, Françoise Rosay
The Trip to Tilsit AKA Die Reise nach Tilsit (1939) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn, Anna Dammann
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The Great Sacrifice (1944) Veit Harlan, Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Albrecht is a son in a family of wealthy intellectuals that has a seaside estate near Hamburg. Read More »
The Great King (1942) Veit Harlan, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum, Gustav Fröhlich, Drama, History, War
King Frederick II (aka “Frederick the Great”) of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren’t going well. Read More »
Hanna Amon (1951) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Lutz Moik, Ilse Steppat, Drama
Hanna and her brother Thomas Amon live on the estate of their deceased parents. Read More »
Der Herrscher / The Sovereign (1937) Veit Harlan, Emil Jannings, Paul Wagner, Hannes Stelzer, Drama
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining to start life anew, he falls in love with his secretary Inken (Marianne Hoppe) and impulsively takes a vacation to Italy. Clausen’s selfish grown children, not wishing to share their father’s affections – nor his money – with his new wife-to-be, go to court demanding that Clausen be declared mentally incompetent. Upon finding this out, Clausen flies into a rage, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not he really as gone off his trolley.
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