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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…Read moreLess
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…
The story
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…
Cast & crew
William DieterleLudwig II - König von Bayern
Theodor LoosDr. von Gudden
Hubert von Meyerinck
Eugen BurgCast
Ferdinand von Alten
Gerhard BienertHesselschwerdt
Josef ReithoferCast
Michael von NewlinskyExplore the crew
- Director
- William Dieterle
- Producer
- Paul Kohner
- Director of Photography
- Charles J. Stumar
- Original Music Composer
- Hansheinrich Dransmann
- Producer
- Joe Pasternak
- Writer
- Charlotte Hagenbruch
- Writer
- William Dieterle
- Writer
- Lajos Biró