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Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.Read moreLess
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.
The story
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.
Cast & crew
Käthe DorschCaroline Neuber
Hilde KrahlPhiline Schröder, ihre Schülerin
Henny PortenHerzogin Amalia von Weißenfels
Richard HäusslerBaron Armin von Perckhammer, ihr Neffe
Gustav DiesslErnst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
Erna SellmerAmme Armins
Walter JanssenCast
Friedrich DominCast
Leopold von Ledebur
Ullrich HauptCastExplore the crew
- Director
- G.W. Pabst
- Producer
- Hans Schweikart
- Director of Photography
- Bruno Stephan
- Editor
- Ludolf Grisebach
- Writer
- G.W. Pabst
- Writer
- Axel Eggebrecht
- Writer
- Walter von Hollander