The Sovereign
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).
Directed by Veit Harlan · Written by Harald Bratt
Cast
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Emil Jannings Matthias Clausen -
Marianne Hoppe Inken Peters -
Hilde Körber Bettina Clausen -
Käthe Haack Ottilie Klamroth -
Herbert Hübner Direktor Erich Klamroth -
Maria Koppenhöfer Klothilde Clausen -
Paul Bildt Diener Winter -
Heinrich Schroth Direktor Hofer -
Max Gülstorff Sanitätsrat Geiger -
Harald Paulsen Rechtsanwalt Hanefeld - Paul Wagner Professor Wolfgang Clausen
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Hannes Stelzer Egert
Make it a double feature
3h 41m together
The Sovereign
The Great King
Both from Veit Harlan.
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