The Sovereign

Name: The Sovereign
Director: Veit Harlan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1937-03-17
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Emil Jannings, Marianne Hoppe, Hilde Körber, Käthe Haack, Herbert Hübner

Directed by Veit Harlan

Drama

19371h 43m5.0

Overview

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining to start life anew, he falls in love with his secretary Inken (Marianne Hoppe) and impulsively takes a vacation to Italy. Clausen's selfish grown children, not wishing to share their father's affections -- nor his money -- with his new wife-to-be, go to court demanding that Clausen be declared mentally incompetent. Upon finding this out, Clausen flies into a rage, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not he really as gone off his trolley. Der Herrscher was directed by Veit Harlan, more famous (or notorious) for his viciously anti-Semitic Jud Suess (1940).