The Sovereign
- Drama
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).
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 17, 1937
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Tobis-Magna-Filmproduktion
- Cast
- Käthe Haack,Emil Jannings,Heinrich Schroth,Herbert Hübner,Hannes Stelzer,Marianne Hoppe,Paul Wagner,Harald Paulsen,Max Gülstorff,Rudolf Klein-Roggeand 3 more
- Director
- Veit Harlan
- Producer
- Karl Julius Fritzsche
- Cinematography
- Werner Brandes,Günther Anders
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0028995