The Night With the Emperor
Directed byErich Engel
Written by
Produced byEberhard Klagemann
Starring
CinematographyBruno Mondi
Edited byCarl Otto Bartning
Music byHans-Otto Borgmann
Production
company
Klagemann-Film
Distributed byRota-Film
Release date
  • 22 December 1936 (1936-12-22)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Night With the Emperor (German: Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser) is a 1936 German historical comedy film directed by Erich Engel and starring Jenny Jugo, Richard Romanowsky, and Friedrich Benfer.[1] It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios of Tobis Film in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Haacker and Hermann Warm.[2] The film is set in 1808 at the Congress of Erfurt.

Cast

  • Jenny Jugo as Lisa Grossinger
  • Richard Romanowsky as Thomas Kellermeister
  • Friedrich Benfer as Heinz Heckmann
  • Hans Zesch-Ballot as Napoleon
  • Werner Scharf as De Brusset, Adjutant
  • Hans Leibelt as Bürgermeister von Erfurt
  • Walter Steinbeck as Director of Erfurt theatre
  • Paul Henckels as Manager of Erfurt theatre
  • Ernst G. Schiffner as King of Sachsen
  • Otto Wögerer as Russian Tsar
  • Olga Limburg as Kammerfrau
  • Erika Helmke as Primadonna Elisabeth Frühwirt
  • Harry Frank as Schauspieler
  • Karl Platen as Intendant des Erfurter Stadttheaters
  • Theodor Thony as Napoleons Kammerdiener Lucien
  • Luise Hohorst as Lisa's wardrober
  • Angelo Ferrari as Russian general
  • Hans Schneider as Adjutant of King of Sachsen
  • Julius Brandt as Police president in Erfurt
  • Valy Arnheim as Leiter des Sicherheitsdienstes
  • Walter Bechmann as Napoleon's Kammerdiener
  • Fred Becker as Student
  • Horst Birr as Student
  • Kurt Cramer as King of Wurtemberg
  • Wolf Dietrich as Student
  • Aribert Grimmer as Erfurt citizen
  • Karl Hannemann as French soldier in Erfurt
  • Hans Ludwig Hilmers as Prince Wilhelm
  • Charlie Albert Huber as Student
  • Antonie Jaeckel as Kellermanns Vermieterin
  • Ly Jankowski as Dame in Napoleon's Theaterloge
  • Carl Martin Kemper as French general
  • Fritz Klaudius as Erfurt citizen
  • Walter Kunkel as Student
  • Max Mothes as Der Inspizient
  • Waltraud Neckes as Die Souffleuse
  • Lotte Preuss as Eine Schauspielerin am Stadttheater
  • Rudolf Preuss as Young officer
  • Ernst Albert Schaach as Police officer in Erfurt
  • Alfred Schwarz as Young officer
  • Jörn Valery
  • Jens von Hagen as Russian general
  • Eduard Wenck as Gemüsehändler
  • Friedrich Wilke as Student

References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder, p. 288.
  2. Klaus p.160

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
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