Louise, Queen of Prussia (film)

Louise, Queen of Prussia (German: Luise, Königin von Preußen) is a 1931 German historical drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Henny Porten, Gustaf Gründgens, and Ekkehard Arendt. The film's art director was Franz Schroedter.

Louise, Queen of Prussia
Directed by	Carl Froelich
Written by	Fred Hildenbrand Stuart Friedrich Raff [de] Julius Urgiß
Based on	Luise (novel) by Walter von Molo
Produced by	Wilhelm von Kaufmann [de] Henny Porten
Starring	Henny Porten Gustaf Gründgens Ekkehard Arendt Vladimir Gajdarov
Cinematography	Friedl Behn-Grund
Music by	Hanson Milde-Meissner
Production company	Henny Porten Filmproduktion
Release date	4 December 1931 (1931-12-04)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

It depicts the life of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776–1810), the wife of Frederick William III of Prussia. It forms part of the Prussian film genre.

The film was produced by Porten's own production company, founded during the silent era when she was a dominant German star. The failure of the film led to the financial ruin of Porten's production company, and she appeared in far fewer films after this point.^[1]

Cast

• Henny Porten as Königin Luise
• Gustaf Gründgens as König Friedrich Wilhelm III
• Ekkehard Arendt as Prinz Louis Ferdiand
• Vladimir Gajdarov as Zar Alexander
• Friedrich Kayßler as Freiherr von Stein
• Helene Fehdmer [de; es] as Gräfin Voss
• Paul Gunther as Napoleon
• Christiane Grautoff [de] as Knabe
• Inge Landgut as Mädchen
• Friedrich Ettel
• Friedrich Gnaß
• Bernhard Goetzke
• Ferdinand Hart
• Eva L'Arronge [de]
• Aribert Mog
• John Mylong
• Veronika Nargo
• Walter Steinbeck
• Hugo Werner-Kahle
• Paul Westermeier

References

1. Killy & Vierhaus, pp. 42–43.

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Killy, Walther; Vierhaus, Rudolf, eds. (2005). Dictionary of German Biography. Vol. Volume 8: Plett–Schmidseder. Munich: K. G. Saur. ISBN 978-3-598-23298-5. {{cite book}}: External link in |volume= (help)

External links

• Louise, Queen of Prussia at IMDb
• Luise, Königin von Preußen Full movie at the Deutsche Filmothek