''The Empress of China'' (german: Die Kaiserin von China) is a 1953 German
comedy film
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directed by
Steve Sekely
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He directed films in Hun ...
and starring
Grethe Weiser
Grethe Weiser (; 27 February 1903 – 2 October 1970) was a German actress.
Biography
Born in Hanover, she spent her childhood in Dresden. She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufactu ...
,
Nadja Tiller and
Joachim Brennecke
Joachim Brennecke (6 December 1919 – 6 September 2011) was a German stage and film actor. During the Second World War he had prominent roles in Nazi propaganda films such as ''Attack on Baku'' and '' 5 June''.Kreimeier p.347
Selected filmograph ...
.
[Bergfelder p. 125]
It was shot at the
Spandau Studios
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and
on location at
Wannsee
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in
Berlin
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art directors
Karl Schneider and
Kurt Herlth.
Cast
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Grethe Weiser
Grethe Weiser (; 27 February 1903 – 2 October 1970) was a German actress.
Biography
Born in Hanover, she spent her childhood in Dresden. She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufactu ...
as Tante Clementine
*
Nadja Tiller as Viktoria
*
Joachim Brennecke
Joachim Brennecke (6 December 1919 – 6 September 2011) was a German stage and film actor. During the Second World War he had prominent roles in Nazi propaganda films such as ''Attack on Baku'' and '' 5 June''.Kreimeier p.347
Selected filmograph ...
as Heinrich Morland
*
Ernst Waldow
Ernst Waldow (22 August 1893 – 5 June 1964) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films during his career.
Selected filmography
* '' Rübezahl's Wedding'' (1916)
* '' Sin of a Beautiful Woman'' (1929)
*'' The Green Domino'' (1 ...
as Professor Mirrzahler
*
Edith Schollwer
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as Frau Lose
*
Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Vespermann was born into an actor's family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany today Chełmża, Poland. Already his great-grandparents were ac ...
as Herr Lose
*
Ruth Stephan
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Biography
Ruth Stephan was born to retail merchant Kurt Stephan and his wife, Kriemhilde. A ...
*
Erich Fiedler
Erich Fiedler (15 March 1901 – 19 May 1981) was a German film actor. He was the German dubbing voice of Robert Morley.
Selected filmography
* ''The Escape to Nice'' (1932)
* '' Overnight Sensation'' (1932)
* '' Marion, That's Not Nice'' (1933 ...
*
Ursula Herking
Ursula Herking (28 January 1912 – 17 November 1974) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Susanne ...
*
Hans Zesch-Ballot
Hans Zesch-Ballot (20 May 1896 – 1 September 1972) was a German film actor
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as Dr. Stansberg
*
Maria Zach
*
Rolf Weih
Rolf Weih (1906–1969) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Flachsmann the Educator'' (1930)
* '' Comrades at Sea'' (1938)
* '' Alarm at Station III'' (1939)
* '' In the Name of the People'' (1939)
* '' The Governor'' (1939)
* ''Ala ...
as Dr. Müller
*
Wolfgang Neuss
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as Wonderful
* as Wanderstein
*
Heinz Holl
*
Gerd Vespermann
Gerd Vespermann (24 July 1926 – 25 November 2000) was a German stage, film and television actor. He was the son of the actors Kurt Vespermann and Lia Eibenschütz
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*
Peter Lehmbrock
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*
Herbert Weissbach
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*
Joe Furtner
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*
Lys Assia
Lys Assia (born Rosa Mina Schärer; 3 March 1924 – 24 March 2018) was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. Assia was born in Rupperswil, Aargau, and began her stage career as a dancer, but changed to singing in 1940 ...
as Sängerin
*
Ilja Glusgal as Sänger
*
Harold Horn as Dancer
*
Liane Müller as Dancer
*
Ursula Voß Ursula may refer to:
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1953 films
1953 comedy films
German comedy films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Steve Sekely
Films based on German novels
German black-and-white films
Films shot at Spandau Studios
1950s German films
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