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Director
  
G. W. Pabst

Music director
  
Lothar Bruhne

Language
  
German

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Genre
  
Biography, Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
Nazi Germany

The Comedians (1941 film) movie poster

Writer
  
Olly Boeheim
,
Axel Eggebrecht
,
Walter von Hollander

Release date
  
5 September 1941 (1941-09-05)

Initial release
  
November 23, 1942 (Denmark)

Screenplay
  
G. W. Pabst, Axel Eggebrecht, Walter von Hollander

Cast
  
Käthe Dorsch
(Caroline Neuber),
Hilde Krahl
(Philine Schröder, ihre Schülerin),
Henny Porten
(Herzogin Amalia von Weißenfels),
Richard Häussler
(Baron Armin von Perckhammer, ihr Neffe),
Gustav Diessl
(Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland),
Erna Sellmer
(Amme Armins)

Similar movies
  
Related G W Pabst movies

The Comedians (German: Komödianten) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and based on the novel Philine by Olly Boeheim. The film is set in the eighteenth century, and portrays the development of German theatre.

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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.

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

    • References

    The Comedians (1941 film) Wikipedia
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    The Comedians (1941 film) IMDb The Comedians (1941 film) themoviedb.org


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