The Sovereign

1937
The Sovereign
5.7| 1h43m| en| Drama
Storyline

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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  • The Sovereign Cast
Emil Jannings as Matthias Clausen
Marianne Hoppe as Inken Peters
Hilde Körber as Bettina Clausen
Käthe Haack as Ottilie Klamroth
Herbert Hübner as Direktor Erich Klamroth
Maria Koppenhöfer as Klothilde Clausen
Paul Bildt as Diener Winter
Heinrich Schroth as Direktor Hofer
Max Gülstorff as Sanitätsrat Geiger