The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci

  • Otto fee: Frederick II of Prussia
  • Renate Müller: Blanche of Lindeneck
  • Hans Rehmann: Major of Lindeneck
  • Walter Janssen: Malt tooth, Prussian ambassador in Dresden
  • Raoul Aslan: Imperial Count Brühl
  • Friedrich Kayssler: Finkenstein
  • Aribert Wascher: Pollnitz
  • Margarete Schön: Princess Amalie
  • Theodor Loos: Menzel
  • Hans Brausewetter: Correspondent
  • Paul Biensfeldt: Quantz
  • Vladimir Sokoloff: Russian envoy in Potsdam
  • Friedrich Kühne: Schwerin
  • Alfred Beierle: Retzow
  • Kurt Pehlemann: Winterfeldt
  • Max Leu: Seydlitz
  • George John: Zieten
  • Attila Hörbiger: Second Messenger
  • Fritz Reiff: Grenadier
  • Theo Lingen: Kent
  • Jakob Tiedtke: host
  • Charles Elzer: coachmen of the king
  • Ferdinand Hart: Rutowski
  • Hans Mühlhofer: First General
  • Ernst Dernburg: Second General
  • Ruth Jacobsen: First Lady
  • Hilde Wörner: Second Lady
  • Martin Herzberg: Young Gentleman
  • Alexander Murski: Russian envoy to Dresden
  • Edwin Jurgensen: Austrian ambassador in Dresden
  • Werner Schott: French envoy to Dresden
  • Hubert von Meyerinck: Attaché
  • Heinrich Gretler: border guard
  • Eduard von Winterstein
  • Franz Scharwenka
  • Olga Engl

A Flute Concert of Sans- Souci is a German, turned into black and white, historical film from the year 1930. He is the first sound film of the 1920-1942 very popular Fridericus Rex movies that deal with the history of Frederick the Great.

Action

In 1756, a masked ball in the Dresden palace of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl is celebrated officially. Unofficially, however, discussions are underway with the ambassadors of Austria, Russia and France, which have a conspiracy against the Prussian king Frederick the goal. The Prussian envoy of Major Lindeneck noticed this incident and he manages to bring a copy of the signed secret treaty the Prussian King. Frederick II is stunned by the conspiracy and is developing a plan to counter this. To this end he sends from Lindeneck again to Dresden. This is dependent, however, little excited because he thinks he has reason to doubt the marital fidelity of his wife Blanche, and these in turn must now leave alone. However, the king loyalty to him is more important and he leads all orders from the Prussian king. When the envoys of Austria, Russia and France to ask for an audience with Friedrich, this is already cleared up completely on the plot, they are still a feast in honor of Sanssouci. During the festival, he consults with his generals and during a flute concerto, in which is involved the king, he makes known that he had just given these marching orders for the regiments. The Seven Years War begins.

Others

  • For the first time was to hear the voice of Otto fee in this movie. The audience was so enthusiastic about his voice that it stood up and applauded when he spoke his first sentence.
  • The film provoked violent protests, because as one day before the premiere of the film on the Western Front banned. The press criticized the fact that a film like going to the Western Front, which should deter a war, and instead banned a film like The Flute Concert of Sans- souci, which calls upon the war, will shown.
  • The film was restored in the early 1990s by the Friedrich -Wilhelm -Murnau -Stiftung and released on VHS.
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