Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

SEINE HOHEIT, GENOSSE PRINZ

HIS HIGHNESS - COMRADE PRINCE

Werner W. Wallroth

GDR, 1969, 88 Min

Export merchant and comrade Kasper Mai was an abandoned child. Now it turns out he's in fact the Prince of Hohenlohe-Liebenstein. An irony-laced comedy full of digs at both the eastern and western way of life.

Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen

On a business trip to West Germany Kasper Mai visits the estate of his ancestors, where a NATO airbase is to be built; united by opposition to the sale of the estate, he and his grandmother find common ground. The point that people are shaped by social relations, as opposed to ancestry, is made with a humour complemented by a series of small digs at life in both East and West Germany. FBH

Filmformat
DVD | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Rudi Strahl

Kamera
Hans-Jürgen Kruse

Schnitt
Helga Emmrich

Musik
Karl-Ernst Sasse

Darsteller
Rolf Ludwig, Regina Beyer, Jutta Wachowiak, Ilse Voigt, Mathilde Danegger

Produzent
Manfred Renger

Produktion
DEFA Studio für Spielfilme

Kontakt
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Werner W. Wallroth - born 1930 in Erfurt, died 2011 in Potsdam, Germany. Initially he studied German philology and Anglistics before he started to study directing at today´s University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Since the 1960s he worked as director for the DEFA and directed a total of 11 feature films.

Movies
DAS RABAUKEN-KABARETT (1961)
ALASKAFÜCHSE (1964)
HAUPTMANN FLORIAN VON DER MÜHLE (1968)
DU UND ICH UND KLEIN-PARIS (1970)
LÜTZOWER (1972)
BLUTSBRÜDER (1975)
LIEBESFALLEN (1976)
ZILLE UND ICK (1983)
DER DOPPELGÄNGER (1985)

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