The Sovereign

The Sovereign (1937)

Drama

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).

Director: Veit Harlan
Writers: Thea von Harbou, Curt J. Braun.

Casts

	Emil Jannings as Matthias Clausen
	Marianne Hoppe as Inken Peters
	Hilde Körber as Bettina Clausen
	Käthe Haack as Ottilie Klamroth
	Herbert Hübner as Direktor Erich Klamroth
	Maria Koppenhöfer as Klothilde Clausen
	Paul Bildt as Diener Winter
	Heinrich Schroth as Direktor Hofer
	Max Gülstorff as Sanitätsrat Geiger
	Harald Paulsen as Rechtsanwalt Hanefeld
	Paul Wagner as Professor Wolfgang Clausen
	Hannes Stelzer as Egert
	Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Direktor Bodlfing

Crew