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The Sovereign
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).
| Release : | 1937 |
| Rating : | 5.8 |
| Studio : | Tobis-Magna-Filmproduktion, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Emil Jannings Marianne Hoppe Hilde Körber Käthe Haack Herbert Hübner |
| Genre : | Drama |
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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
