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The Sovereign

50 %|Mar 17, 1937|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. Der Herrscher was directed by Veit Harlan, more famous (or notorious) for his viciously anti-Semitic Jud Suess (1940).

Featured Crew

Veit Harlan
Director
Wolfgang Zeller
Music
Robert Herlth
Production Design
Karl Julius Fritzsche
Producer
Martha Dübber
Editor
Werner Brandes
Director of Photography
Hans Grimm
Sound
Thea von Harbou
Screenplay

Cast

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Emil Jannings
Matthias Clausen
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Marianne Hoppe
Inken Peters
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Hilde Körber
Bettina Clausen
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Käthe Haack
Ottilie Klamroth
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Herbert Hübner
Direktor Erich Klamroth
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Maria Koppenhöfer
Klothilde Clausen
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Paul Bildt
Diener Winter
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Heinrich Schroth
Direktor Hofer
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Max Gülstorff
Sanitätsrat Geiger
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Harald Paulsen
Rechtsanwalt Hanefeld
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Paul Wagner
Professor Wolfgang Clausen
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Direktor Bodlfing