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Wikipedia article




'Archduke Johann's Great Love' (German: 'Erzherzog Johanns groe Liebe') is a 1950 Austrian historical romantic drama film directed by Hans Schott-Schbinger and starring Marte Harell, O.W. Fischer and Christl Mardayn.Fritsche p.65

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Isabella Schlichting and Werner Schlichting.

Synopsis



Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the more liberal-minded Habsburg Archduke John supports reforms in the Austrian Empire and German Confederation but is thwarted by machinations of the reactionary Klemens von Metternich. Things are complicated further when Archduke John falls in love with the commoner Anna Plochl and wishes to marry her.

Cast



* Marte Harell as Anna Plochl

* O.W. Fischer as Erzherzog Johann

* Christl Mardayn as Kaiserin

* Josef Meinrad as Vertrauter des Erzherzogs

* Leopold Rudolf as Invalider Tiroler

* Albin Skoda as Fuerst Metternich

* Franz Pfaudler as Plochl, Posthalter von Aussee

* Franz Herterich as Kaiser Franz I.

* Oskar Sima as Armbrustschuetze

* Theodor Danegger as Diener

* Auguste Pnksdy as Zofe

References



Bibliography



* Fritsche, Maria. 'Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity '. Berghahn Books, 2013.

* Von Dassanowsky, Robert. 'Austrian Cinema: A History'. McFarland, 2005.


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