The Comedians

The Comedians (1941)

Drama

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.

Director: G.W. Pabst

Casts

	Käthe Dorsch as Caroline Neuber
	Hilde Krahl as Philine Schröder, ihre Schülerin
	Henny Porten as Herzogin Amalia von Weißenfels
	Richard Häussler as Baron Armin von Perckhammer, ihr Neffe
	Gustav Diessl as Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
	Erna Sellmer as Amme Armins
	Lucy Millowitsch as Demoiselle Lorenz
	Walter Janssen as
	Friedrich Domin as
	Alexander Ponto as
	Leopold von Ledebur as
	Ullrich Haupt as
	Erich Dunskus as
	Karin Evans as
	Julius Frey as
	Bettina Moissi as

Crew