Augustus the Strong (film)

{{Infobox film

|name = Augustus the Strong

|image = File:Augustus the Strong (film).jpg

|caption =

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|August der Starke}}

|director = Paul Wegener

|producer = Curt Haensel

|writer = {{ubl|Herbert Tjadens|Johannes Eckardt|Rolf Meyer|Carl Haensel}}

|starring = {{ubl|Michael Bohnen|Lil Dagover|Marieluise Claudius|Günther Hadank}}

|music = Hans Erdmann

|editing = Rolf Meyer

|cinematography = Karl Puth

|studio = Nerthus Film
Polski Tobis

|distributor = Hammer-Tonfilm

|released = {{Film date|1936|1|17|Germany|1936|11||Poland|df=y}}

|runtime = 108 minutes

|country = Germany
Poland

|language = German

}}

Augustus the Strong ({{langx|de|August der Starke}}) is a 1936 German-Polish biographical film directed by Paul Wegener and starring Michael Bohnen, Lil Dagover, and Marieluise Claudius. The film depicts the life of Augustus the Strong, the Eighteenth Century ruler of Saxony and Poland. It was partly shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.25 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Machus and Ludwig Reiber.

Production

A multiple-language version was made in Polish, directed by Stanisław Wasylewski and featuring a Polish cast.{{cite book|last=Skaff|first=Sheila|title=The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939|publisher=Ohio University Press|page=172|year=2008|location=Athens, OH|isbn=978-0-8214-1784-3}} Another Polish-German co-production Adventure in Warsaw was produced the following year.{{cite book|last=Kreimeier|first=Klaus|title=The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_I1u5qMPO0RkC|publisher=University of California Press|year=1999|location=Berkeley|page=283|isbn=978-0-520-22069-0}}

Cast

{{cast listing|

Michael Bohnen as Augustus the Strong
Lil Dagover as Countess Aurore Königsmark
Marieluise Claudius as Countess Anna Constanze Cosel
Günther Hadank as Charles XII
Franz Schafheitlin as Flemming
Ernst Legal as Joseph Fröhlich/Count Saumagen
Walther Süssenguth as Fürstenberg
Maria Krahn as Eberhardine
Karl Hannemann as Patkul
Paul Mederow as Pöppelmann
Hans Kettler as Schulenburg
Curt Lucas as Count Hoym
Rose Borgh as Ballet Dancer 2
Eva Wegener as Ballet Dancer 1
Ernst Rotmund as Wirt in Warschau
Hans Rudolf Waldburg as the Bishop of Gnesen
Ewald Schindler as the personal physician
Franz Weilhammer as Permoser
Carl Heinz Charrell as Dinglinger
Paul Hildebrandt as Leibbursche at Karl XII
Ferdinand Asper as Ballet Master
Wolfgang von Schwindt as host
Dieter Horn as Brühl
Franz Stein as superintendent
Armin Schweizer as Hofriseur
Kai Möller as General Piper
Maria Loja as ballet master
Hamala as dancer
Maria Balcerkiewiczówna as Princess Jablonowska
Maria Wieke as Ihre Begleiterin
Tamara Wiszniewska as Jasia
Franciszek Brodniewicz as Adelsmarschall
Wanda Jarszewska as Eine polnische Wirtin
Harry Muratov as Polish innkeeper
Loda Halama as young fiancée
Wilhelm Mewes as Saxon Kutscher
Aleksander Suchcicki as court marshal

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References

Bibliography

{{cite book|editor-first1=Hans-Michael|editor-last1=Bock|editor-link1=Hans-Michael Bock|editor-first2=Tim|editor-last2 = Bergfelder|title=The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2009|location=New York|isbn=978-1-57181-655-9}}
Bock, Hans-Michael . Die Tobis 1928-1945: eine kommentierte Filmografie. Edition Text + Kritik, 2003.
Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.