The Comedians (1941 film)

The Comedians
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Produced by Hans Schweikart
Written by Olly Boeheim
Axel Eggebrecht
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Walter von Hollander
Starring Käthe Dorsch
Cinematography Bruno Stephan
Editing by Ludolf Grisebach
Studio Bavaria Filmkunst
Distributed by Bavaria Filmverleih
Release date(s)
  • 5 September 1941 (1941-09-05)
Running time 111 minutes
Country Nazi Germany
Language German

The Comedians (German: Komödianten) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst,[1] and based on the novel Philine by Olly Boeheim.[2]

Plot

Karoline Neuber attempts to improve the lot of actors, who are looked down upon as vagabonds. When the Duchess refuses to let her son marry an actress, she defends them with such vehemence that she is driven from the country and finally dies in solitude.

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Cast

  • Käthe Dorsch as Karoline Neuber
  • Hilde Krahl as Philine Schröder
  • Henny Porten as Amalia, Herzogin von Weissenfels
  • Gustav Diessl as Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
  • Richard Häussler as Armin von Perckhammer
  • Friedrich Domin as Johann Neuber
  • Ludwig Schmitz as Müller, der Hanswurst
  • Sonja Gerda Scholz as Die Feigin
  • Lucy Millowitsch as Die Lorenz
  • Bettina Hambach as Victorine
  • Walter Janssen as Koch, Charakterspieler
  • Alexander Ponto as Kohlhardt, jugendlicher Liebhaber
  • Viktor Afritsch as Graf Paul, Bruder der Herzogin von Weissenfels
  • Kurt Müller-Graf as Studiosus Gotthold
  • Harry Langewisch as Professor Gottsched
  • Arnulf Schröder as Klupsch, Ratsherr in Leipzig
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References

  1. ^ "NY Times: The Comedians". NY Times. Retrieved 2009-09-13. 
  2. ^ Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p36 ISBN 0-9627613-1-1
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