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The Blue Swords
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Wikipedia article
'The Blue Swords' is a 1949 East German historical drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat and Alexander Engel.Allan & Heiduschke p. 114 It sold more than 3,299,432 tickets.[http://www.insidekino.de/DJahr/DDRAlltimeDeutsch.htm List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.] The film portrays the life of Johann Friedrich Bttger, an alchemist of the early eighteenth century who was held prisoner by the Elector of Saxony in order to discover the secret of gold production. Failing to accomplish this, which he knows to be impossible, he instead works to develop porcelain. The title refers to the symbol of Meissen, a pair of crossed swords. His story had previously been turned into a 1935 film 'The King's Prisoner', released during the Nazi era.
The sets were designed by the art directors Karl Schneider and Erich Zander. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in East Berlin.
Cast
* Hans Quest as Johann Bttger
* Ilse Steppat as Frau von Tschirnhausen
* Alexander Engel as Herr von Tschirnhausen
* Herbert Hbner as Nehmitz
* Willy A. Kleinau as August der Starke
* Marianne Prenzel as Katharina
* Paul Wagner as Knig Friedrich I.
* Werner Pledath as Kreisamtmann von Wittenberg
* Klaus Miedel as Laskari
* Rolf Weih as Leutnant Menzel
* Albert Bessler as Finanzminister
* Siegfried Dornbusch as Khler
* Hans Emons as Wildenstein
* Hans Fiebrandt as Gehilfe von Dnnbrot
* Harry Gillmann as Hauknecht im "Knig von Portugal"
* Sonja Hartke as Maitresse
* Alfred Maack as Wirt "Knig von Portugal"
* Margarete Schn as Frau Zorn
See also
* 'The King's Prisoner' (1935)
References
Bibliography
* San Allan & Sebastian Heiduschke. 'Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts'. Berghahn Books, 2016.
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