The Sovereign (1937)
1h 43m
Running Time
March 17, 1937Release Date
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).
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Cast & Crew.

Emil Jannings
Matthias Clausen

Marianne Hoppe
Inken Peters

Hilde Körber
Bettina Clausen

Käthe Haack
Ottilie Klamroth

Herbert Hübner
Direktor Erich Klamroth

Maria Koppenhöfer
Klothilde Clausen

Paul Bildt
Diener Winter

Heinrich Schroth
Direktor Hofer

Max Gülstorff
Sanitätsrat Geiger

Harald Paulsen
Rechtsanwalt Hanefeld

Helene Fehdmer
Frau Peters

Paul Wagner
Professor Wolfgang Clausen

Hannes Stelzer
Egert

Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Direktor Bodlfing

Veit Harlan
Director

Harald Bratt
Writer

Gerhart Hauptmann
Novel

Wolfgang Zeller
Music

Walter Schreckling
Wardrobe Supervisor

Karl Julius Fritzsche
Producer

Günther Anders
Director of Photography

Martha Dübber
Editor

Ilse Fehling
Costume Design

Thea von Harbou
Screenplay

Robert Herlth
Production Design

Anni Loretto
Wardrobe Supervisor

Curt J. Braun
Screenplay

Werner Brandes
Director of Photography

Hans Grimm
Sound
Details.
Release DateMarch 17, 1937
Original NameDer Herrscher
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 43m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Ruler (German: Der Herrscher) is a 1937 German drama film directed by Veit Harlan. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann. Erwin Leiser calls it a propagandistic demonstration of the Führerprinzip of Nazi Germany. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. Location shooting took place around Oberhausen and Pompeii near Naples. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.
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