The Blue Swords

The Blue Swords (1949)


  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Release Date: 1949-12-30
  • Runtime: 1h 39min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: DEFA
  • Production Country: East Germany, Germany
  • Director: Wolfgang Schleif

Summary

The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equipped with everything he would need for the task, but he has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain—white porcelain, as the Chinese are said to possess. In 1709, he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," the first white porcelain made in Europe, he hopes for freedom.

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  • Hans Quest

    as Johann Böttger

  • Ilse Steppat

    as Frau von Tschirnhausen

  • Herbert Hübner

    as Nehmitz

  • Albert Bessler

    as Finanzminister

  • Alexander Engel

    as Herr von Tschirnhausen

  • Willy A. Kleinau

    as August der Starke

  • Marianne Prenzel

    as Katharina

  • Paul Wagner

    as König Friedrich I.

  • Werner Pledath

    as Kreisamtmann von Wittenberg

  • Klaus Miedel

    as Laskari

  • Rolf Weih

    as Leutnant Menzel

  • Johannes Bergfeldt

    as

  • Siegfried Dornbusch

    as Köhler

  • Hans Emons

    as Wildenstein

  • Hans Fiebrandt

    as Gehilfe von Dünnbrot

  • Margarete Schön

    as Frau Zorn

  • Erik von Loewis

    as Leutnant von Kittwitz

  • Harry Gillmann

    as

  • Willy Kaiser-Heyl

    as

  • Wolfgang Kühne

    as

  • Franz Lichtenauer

    as

  • Heinz Lingen

    as

  • Alfred Maack

    as

  • Peter Marx

    as

  • Otto Matthies

    as

  • Willi Narloch

    as

  • Edmund Pouch

    as

  • Martin Rosen

    as

  • Henning Schlüter

    as

  • Walter Schramm

    as

  • Werner Segtrop

    as

  • Otto Stoeckel

    as

  • Robert Taube

    as

  • Friedrich Teitge

    as

  • Axel Triebel

    as

  • Nico Turoff

    as

  • Inge van der Straaten

    as

  • Walter Weinacht

    as
Directing Wolfgang Schleif Director
Editing Hermann Ludwig Editor
Sound Walter Sieber Music
Crew Ernst W. Fiedler Cinematography
Writing Alfred Böttcher Writer

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