Der Havelkaiser
- Günter Pfitzmann: Richard Kaiser
- Marion Kracht: Jette Emperor
- Hansi Jochmann: Vera tarpaulin
- Rolf Zacher: Eckhard " Niemiecki " tarpaulin
- Rainer Rudolph: Ulrich Kaiser (episodes 1-9)
- Peter Sattmann: Ulrich Kaiser (episodes 10-11 )
- Helen Schneider: Hillary Emperor
- Herbert Stass: Bruno Kaiser
- Rosemarie Fendel: Magda Emperor
- Franziska Bronnen: Therese Becker
- Renate Richter: Lotte cuckoo
- Michèle Marian: Elisabeth Havemann
- Stephanie Philipp: Amelie Schimmelpfennig
- Jana Kozewa: Jutta Grabowsky
- Guntbert Warns: Benno Masur
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The Havel Kaiser is a 11- part television series that was produced in four seasons of the new German film company on behalf of ARD between the years 1994 and 2000. Was directed by Herbert Ballmann and Eberhard Pieper.
Action
The series is about the Berlin entrepreneur Richard Kaiser and his family, a shipyard and a shipping industry operates on the Havel. Richard, who has successfully expanded the family business, has to fend off the financial demands of his less successful brother Bruno and his wife Magda in the first episodes. The relationship with his own children is subjected to stresses: the marriage of his daughter Vera with the chef Niemiecki stands on the brink of what Richard with his patriarchal appearance is not entirely blameless. His youngest daughter Jette, will be the leader as a successor to Richards, the shipyard, has a lesbian relationship with the lawyer Elizabeth. His son Ulrich fails in the further consequences of unscrupulous real estate transactions and sent to prison. In the 10th episode Richard married his long -time collaborator Lotte. After his daughter Vera drowns tragically and parts of the Imperial Shipyard will be destroyed by fire, Richard Kaiser decides to postpone his planned retirement and the company to carry on.
Episode List
Reception
" [ ... ] Mißrät a TV movie, so must always writer and director Insert the beating. The mimes can not help it, they are puppets. That's true mostly when things go wrong. But that actors who are not puppets, a modest story and a simple directed more than make up for that they abgewinnen a sentimental family film great moments and thus captivate the audience and for piercing itself can seduce a three-part -. , The teaching of the Havel Emperor "
Trivia
In September 2006, a living open space in Havel Imperial Square was renamed in the Spandau district of Berlin. For the first time a public square was named after a television series in Germany.
Media attention was the series in addition by the theming of a lesbian love affair between the daughter Jette Emperor (played by Marion Kracht ) and her friend Elizabeth (played by Michèle Marian ).