(Komödianten)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Germany

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

111 minutes

Year:

1941

Directors:

G.W. Pabst

Actors:

Caroline Neuber

Philine Schröder, ihre Schülerin

Herzogin Amalia von Weißenfels

Baron Armin von Perckhammer, ihr Neffe

Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland

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