The Night With the Emperor

1936 film

Ernst Marischka
Heinrich Oberländer

Produced byEberhard KlagemannStarring

Jenny Jugo
Richard Romanowsky
Friedrich Benfer

CinematographyBruno MondiEdited byCarl Otto BartningMusic byHans-Otto Borgmann

Production
company

Klagemann-Film

Distributed byRota-Film

Release date

22 December 1936 (1936-12-22)

Running time

101 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

The Night With the Emperor (German: Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser) is a 1936 German historical comedy film directed by Erich Engel and starring Jenny Jugo, Richard Romanowsky, and Friedrich Benfer.^[1] It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios of Tobis Film in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Haacker and Hermann Warm.^[2] The film is set in 1808 at the Congress of Erfurt.

Cast

Jenny Jugo as Lisa Grossinger
Richard Romanowsky as Thomas Kellermeister
Friedrich Benfer as Heinz Heckmann
Hans Zesch-Ballot as Napoleon
Werner Scharf as De Brusset, Adjutant
Hans Leibelt as Bürgermeister von Erfurt
Walter Steinbeck as Director of Erfurt theatre
Paul Henckels as Manager of Erfurt theatre
Ernst G. Schiffner as King of Sachsen
Otto Wögerer as Russian Tsar
Olga Limburg as Kammerfrau
Erika Helmke as Primadonna Elisabeth Frühwirt
Harry Frank as Schauspieler
Karl Platen as Intendant des Erfurter Stadttheaters
Theodor Thony as Napoleons Kammerdiener Lucien
Luise Hohorst as Lisa's wardrober
Angelo Ferrari as Russian general
Hans Schneider as Adjutant of King of Sachsen
Julius Brandt as Police president in Erfurt
Valy Arnheim as Leiter des Sicherheitsdienstes
Walter Bechmann as Napoleon's Kammerdiener
Fred Becker as Student
Horst Birr as Student
Kurt Cramer as King of Wurtemberg
Wolf Dietrich as Student
Aribert Grimmer as Erfurt citizen
Karl Hannemann as French soldier in Erfurt
Hans Ludwig Hilmers as Prince Wilhelm
Charlie Albert Huber as Student
Antonie Jaeckel as Kellermanns Vermieterin
Ly Jankowski as Dame in Napoleon's Theaterloge
Carl Martin Kemper as French general
Fritz Klaudius as Erfurt citizen
Walter Kunkel as Student
Max Mothes as Der Inspizient
Waltraud Neckes as Die Souffleuse
Lotte Preuss as Eine Schauspielerin am Stadttheater
Rudolf Preuss as Young officer
Ernst Albert Schaach as Police officer in Erfurt
Alfred Schwarz as Young officer
Jörn Valery
Jens von Hagen as Russian general
Eduard Wenck as Gemüsehändler
Friedrich Wilke as Student

References

^ Bock & Bergfelder, p. 288.
^ Klaus p.160

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.