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The Sovereign

The Sovereign

Drama
1937, Movie, 1h 43min
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. Der Herrscher was directed by Veit Harlan, more famous (or notorious) for his viciously anti-Semitic Jud Suess (1940).
Country: Germany
Director:
Veit Harlan
Cast:
Paul Bildt,
Harald Paulsen,
Heinrich Schroth,
Hilde Körber
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Veit Harlan
Director
Paul Bildt
As Diener Winter
Harald Paulsen
As Rechtsanwalt Hanefeld
Heinrich Schroth
As Direktor Hofer
Hilde Körber
As Bettina Clausen
Marianne Hoppe
As Inken Peters
Emil Jannings
As Matthias Clausen
Käthe Haack
As Ottilie Klamroth

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