Directed by:
William DieterleScreenplay:
William DieterleCinematography:
Charles J. StumarCast:
Max Schreck, William Dieterle, Theodor Loos, Gerhard Bienert, Hubert von Meyerinck, Michael von Newlinsky, Josef Reithofer, Eugen Burg, Trude von Molo (more)Plots(1)
In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Max Schreck
German Empire
Best movies:
Nosferatu (1922)
Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935)
Das verliebte Hotel (1933)
William Dieterle
German Empire
Theodor Loos
German Empire
Best movies:
Metropolis (1927)
M (1931)
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
Gerhard Bienert
German Empire
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
M (1931)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Hubert von Meyerinck
German Empire
Best movies:
One, Two, Three (1961)
Barcarole (1935)
The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
Michael von Newlinsky
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Informer (1931)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Pandora's Box (1929)
Josef Reithofer
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Mountain Calls (1938)
The Young Count (1935)
Uncle Kruger (1941)
Eugen Burg
German Empire
Best movies:
Mary (1931)
Trude von Molo
Austria-Hungary
Arthur Duarte
Portugal
Best movies:
Asphalt (1929)
Rudolph Anders
German Empire
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Act of Violence (1948)
Ferdinand von Alten
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Warning Shadows (1923)
The Man Who Cheated Life (1926)
Anna Boleyn (1920)