Augustus_the_Strong_(film)

<i>Augustus the Strong</i> (film)

Augustus the Strong (film)

1936 film

For the silent film, see Augustus the Strong (1920 film).

Augustus the Strong (German: August der Starke) is a 1936 German-Polish biographical film directed by Paul Wegener and starring Michael Bohnen, Lil Dagover, and Marieluise Claudius. The film depicts the life of Augustus the Strong, the Eighteenth Century ruler of Saxony and Poland. It was partly shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Machus and Ludwig Reiber.

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Production

A multiple-language version was made in Polish, directed by Stanisław Wasylewski and featuring a Polish cast.[2] Another Polish-German co-production Adventure in Warsaw was produced the following year.[3]

Cast

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Klaus p.25
  2. [2]
    Skaff, Sheila (2008). The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-8214-1784-3.
  3. [3]
    Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.

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.
  • Bock, Hans-Michael . Die Tobis 1928-1945: eine kommentierte Filmografie. Edition Text + Kritik, 2003.
  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.


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