Lola Montez, the King’s Dancer

Lola Montez, the King’s Dancer (1922)

Drama

Deviating from the historical facts, Lola is introduced as a young Spanish “Gypsy” who becomes involuntarily embroiled in an attempt to poison the Infante of Spain (a short but splendid cameo by Heinrich George). As a result, she has to flee the country, arriving first in Italy, where she is taught how to act like a lady. Later, in Paris, she is invited to dance at the city’s prestigious opera house, becoming a worldwide sensation. She then becomes secretly involved in a revolutionary plot by Louis Napoléon, the future emperor of France. When the plot fails, Lola is once again forced to flee, this time to Munich, where she captures the attention of Ludwig I. Their ensuing affair arouses a great deal of hatred among the people and the establishment, however. In the end, Lola has no choice but to leave again, and vanishes into the night mist.

Director: Willi Wolff

Casts

	Ellen Richter as Lola Montez
	Hugo Döblin as Corregidor von Barcelona
	Georg Alexander as Studiosus Ludwig von Hirschberg
	Arnold Korff as Ludwig I., König von Bayern
	Heinrich George as Don Miguel
	Mizzi Schütz as Donna Juana
	Arthur Bergen as Madras, ein Zigeuner
	Max Gülstorff as Journalist Beauvallion
	Hans Junkermann as Hoftheaterintendant
	Herbert Paulmüller as Meyerhöfer, Schokoladenfabrikant
	Hermann Picha as Oberkoch
	Fritz Kampers as Lieutenant Nussbaum
	Wilhelm Diegelmann as Havard, Gastwirt
	Julius Falkenstein as Hotelintendant
	Friedrich Kühne as Staatsrat von Berks
	Ernst Pittschau as Studiosus Peisner
	Leonhard Haskel as Pillet, Direktor der Pariser Oper
	Robert Scholz as Louis Napoleon
	Emil Rameau as Baron Rothschild
	Albert Patry as Minister von Abel
	Toni Tetzlaff as Primaballerina
	Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Studiosus Friedemann
	Fritz Schulz as Junger Venezianer
	Rudolf Meinhard-Jünger as
	Frida Richard as Eine Zigeunerin

Crew