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The Sovereign (1937)

Directed by Veit Harlan
1h 43minruntime
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5.0/10

Plot

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).

Genres

Drama

Technical details

DetailValue
Original titleDer Herrscher
Original languageDeutsch (DE)
Spoken languagesDeutsch
Production countriesGermany
StatusReleased
Production companiesTobis-Magna-Filmproduktion
Release date17 marzo 1937
ProductionKarl Julius Fritzsche
WriterThea von Harbou, Gerhart Hauptmann, Harald Bratt, Curt J. Braun
EditingMartha Dübber
CinematographyWerner Brandes, Günther Anders
Assistant directorsVeit Harlan
Camera operatorsWerner Brandes, Günther Anders
Additional photographyWerner Brandes, Günther Anders
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Release dates

Theatrical release

Germany / Mar 17, 1937

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