The Sovereign
movie
Released March 17, 1937
Genres:
Overview
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).
Cast
Emil Jannings
as
Matthias Clausen
Marianne Hoppe
as
Inken Peters
Hilde Körber
as
Bettina Clausen
Käthe Haack
as
Ottilie Klamroth
Herbert Hübner
as
Direktor Erich Klamroth
Maria Koppenhöfer
as
Klothilde Clausen
Paul Bildt
as
Diener Winter
Heinrich Schroth
as
Direktor Hofer
Max Gülstorff
as
Sanitätsrat Geiger
Harald Paulsen
as
Rechtsanwalt Hanefeld
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Paul Wagner
as
Professor Wolfgang Clausen
Hannes Stelzer
as
Egert
Crew
Veit Harlan
as
Director
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Harald Bratt
as
Writer
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Gerhart Hauptmann
as
Novel
Wolfgang Zeller
as
Music
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Walter Schreckling
as
Wardrobe Supervisor
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Karl Julius Fritzsche
as
Producer
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Günther Anders
as
Director of Photography
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Martha Dübber
as
Editor
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Ilse Fehling
as
Costume Design
Thea von Harbou
as
Screenplay
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Robert Herlth
as
Production Design
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Anni Loretto
as
Wardrobe Supervisor