Komodianten (1941)
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Director(s):
- G.W. Pabst
Synopsis of Komodianten
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
Complete Cast of Komodianten
- Gustav Diessl - Ernst Biron
- Käthe Dorsch - Karoline Neuber
- Richard Haussler - Annin von Perckhammer
- Lucie Millowitsch - The Loren
- Ludwig Schmitz - Maller Hanswurst, the harlequin
- Friedrich Domin - Johann Neuber
- Bettina Hambach - Victorine
- Hilde Krahl - Philine Schr6der
- Henny Porten - Amalia, Duchess of Wissenfels
- Sonja-Gerda Scholz - The Feigin
- Director(s):
- G.W. Pabst
- Writer(s):
- Axel Eggebrecht, G.W. Pabst
- 1941 - Venice International Film Festival - Best Director
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