''Andreas Schlüter'' is a 1942

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directed by

Herbert Maisch Herbert Maisch (born 10 December 1890in Nürtingen, Württemberg, died 10 October 1974 in Köln) was a German film director. Selected filmography * ''The Royal Waltz (1935 film), The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * ''Boccaccio (1936 film), Boccaccio'' (19 ...

and starring

Heinrich George Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor. Early life George was born in Pomerania to August Friedrich Schulz, a former Deck Officer in t ...

, Mila Kopp and Olga Chekhova. It portrays the life of the 18th-century German

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

Andreas Schlüter Andreas Schlüter (1659 – ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect, active in the Holy Roman Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Tsardom of Russia, Russia. Biography Andreas Schlüter was born probably in Hamburg, in ...

.Aldgate p. 157–158 It was shot at the

Babelsberg Studios Babelsberg Film Studio () (also known as Studio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of a ...

and Althoff Studios in

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Hermann Asmus,

Kurt Herlth Kurt Herlth (1896–1966) was a German art director known for his designs of film sets. His brother Robert Herlth was also an art director active in the German film industry, and the two men worked together a number of times.Bock & Bergfelder p.1 ...

and

Robert Herlth Robert Herlth (2 May 1893 – 6 January 1962) was a German art director. He was one of the leading designers of German film sets during the 1920s and 1930s.Reimer & Reimer p.146 Filmography * ''Masks'' (1920) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * ' ...

Cast

* Mila Kopp as Elisabeth Schlüter * Olga Chekhova as Countess Vera Orlewska *

Theodor Loos Theodor August Konrad Loos (18 May 1883 – 27 June 1954) was a German actor. The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer, he left secondary school prematurely and worked for three years at an export firm for music instruments in Leipz ...

as Prince Friedrich III. * Dorothea Wieck as

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Marianne Simson Marianne Simson (July 29, 1920 – July 15, 1992) was a German dancer and film actress. She was born in Berlin as the daughter of an insurance clerk John Edward Simson. Her brother was Helmut Simson, who later served as mayor of Wolfsburg. Origina ...

as Leonore Schlüter * Karl John as Bildhauer Martin Böhme, ihr Bräutigam * Herbert Hübner as Minister Johann von Wartenberg *

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (27 July 1900 – 30 October 1988) was a German film actor. He appeared in 130 films between 1933 and 1983. He was born in Brunswick, Germany and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Die große und die ...

as Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe * Eduard von Winterstein as Naumann, ein Freund Schlüters *

Emil Heß Emil Heß (3 February 1889, in Wald, Zurich – 2 March 1945, in Zurich) was a Swiss actor on stage and screen. Personal life Heß married Elizabeth Ellinghaus by whom he had three sons Wolfgang, Urs and Migg. Urs Hess (1940) and Migg Hess (1 ...

as Counsellor Dankelmann *

Max Gülstorff Max Walter Gülstorff (23 March 1882 – 6 February 1947) was a German actor and stage director. Biography Gülstorff was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. He first appeared in 1900 at the Rudolstadt municipal Theater and moved to Cottbus in 1908 ...

as Geheimrat Kraut * Robert Taube as

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to ...

* Paul Dahlke as Ore Caster Johann Jacobi * Christian Kayßler as Prince von Anhalt-Dessau * Trude Haefelin as Mrs. von Pöllnitz *

Franz Schafheitlin Franz Schafheitlin (9 August 1895 – 6 February 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1927 and 1974. He was born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany and died in Pullach, West Germany. Selected filmograph ...

as Mr. von Harms * Otto Graf as Count Flemming *

Ernst Legal Ernst Otto Eduard Legal (2 May 1881 – 29 June 1955) was a German actor and opera director of Berlin State Opera. Born on 2 May 1881 in Schlieben in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian Province of Saxony, he was the father of the actress Marga Leg ...

as Professor Sturm * Paul Westermeier as Gießmeister Wenzel * Ernst Rotmund as Grünberg * Karl Hannemann as Dietze * Peter Elsholtz as Der Agitator * Hans Meyer-Hanno as Der Bauführer * Helmut Heyne as Der Zeichner * Carl Günther as Der Rittmeister * Herwart Grosse as Sekretär bei Wartenberg *

Valy Arnheim Valy Arnheim (born Valentin Theodor Woldemar Appel; 8 June 1883 – 11 November 1950) was a German film actor and director. Selected filmography * '' Lightning Command'' (1921) * '' Anne-Liese of Dessau'' (1925) * '' Harry Hill's Deadly Hunt'' ( ...

as Zeremonienmeister * Hans Waschatko as Obermarschall * Klaus Pohl as Ein Kommissionsmitglied

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