The Sovereign
1937-03-17 | 103 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Emil JanningsMatthias Clausen
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Marianne HoppeInken Peters
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Hilde KörberBettina Clausen
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Käthe HaackOttilie Klamroth
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Herbert HübnerDirektor Erich Klamroth
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Maria KoppenhöferKlothilde Clausen
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Paul BildtDiener Winter
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Heinrich SchrothDirektor Hofer
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Max GülstorffSanitätsrat Geiger
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Harald PaulsenRechtsanwalt Hanefeld
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Hannes StelzerEgert
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Rudolf Klein-RoggeDirektor Bodlfing
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