Der Herrscher
- Emil Jannings: Matthias Clausen
- Marianne Hoppe: Inken Peters
- Hilde Körber: Bettina Clausen
- Hannes Stelzer: Egert Clausen
- Käthe Haack: Ottilie Klamroth
- Herbert Hübner: Director Erich Klamroth
- Paul Wagner: Prof. Wolfgang Clausen
- Maria Koppenhöfer: Clothilde Clausen
- Harald Paulsen: lawyer Hanefeld
- Max Gülstorff: Sanitätsrat Geiger
- Walter Werner: Private Secretary Dr. Wuttke
- Paul Bildt: Servant winter
- Helene Fehdmer: Mrs. Peters
- Theodor Loos: Pastor Immoos
- Heinrich Schroth: Director Hofer
- Rudolf Klein - Rogge: Director Bodelfing
- Hans Stiebner: Director whitefish
- Peter Elsholtz: engineer Dr. Ehrhardt
- Ursula Kurtz: Miss Biel, stenographer
- Heinz Wemper: foreman
- Lisa Lesco
The ruler is a German film directed by Veit Harlan from the year 1937. It was created on motives of Gerhart Hauptmann's drama Before Sunset under the artistic direction of upper Emil Jannings, the next Marianne Hoppe also plays the main role.
Because of the Nazi ideology contained in it, the film after the end of Nazi rule was classified as conditional movie. Currently, the FSC has given the film the ages of twelve years.
Action
After Privy Matthias Clausen, has become the owner of a steel mill, a widower, he is incompetence and greed solid at its directors. Contrary to the advice of his physician to take a vacation, he decides to retain the leadership of his factory itself in the hands.
In his work, he falls in love with his new young secretary sinking Peters and plans to marry her and build a common future with her. His family, consisting of two sons and two daughters, as well as the spouses of the eldest daughter and eldest son, sees them ostensibly the memory of the deceased mother damaged, but truly they believe the family fortune threatened. They desire to against the father. This throws them out of the house.
Clausen is on his marriage plans, but his family wants to insure their cause and operates with the help of attorney Hanefeld legal proceedings to his incapacitation. Only his youngest son refused to sign the request. The court shall refuse the request. To a reconciliation with his family, it is not; Clausen she disinherited and bequeathed his steel factory to the State.
Production
Filming began on 28 October 1936 and lasted until February 1937 in the inside. Production company was the Tobis - Magna - Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin), manufacturing group Helmut Schreiber. The film was shot in Oberhausen in the Gutehoffnungshütte in Pompeii and Paestum. The buildings came from Robert Herlth, the sculptures created Walter Schulze- Mittendorf.
The ruler was premiered on 17 March 1937 at the Berlin Ufa - Palast am Zoo.
Propaganda
In the film, shot partly in the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen, was from the liberal publisher and art collector mild Clausen from Hauptmann's drama a robust and the Leadership Principle embodying ruler of a steel plant.
So Clausen thunders in a scene in front of the Board of Directors by servicing the nationalist economic ideology of the Nazis:
" We are here to provide for millions and millions of jobs and food. We are here to work for the national community. To serve the national community, that must be the goal of every business leader who is aware of his responsibility. This my will is the supreme law of my work. Where everything has to yield to others, even if I do the whole operation navigate without contradiction into the abyss. Who is this supreme law does not subordinate, for which there is no more space in the Clausen - works. "
Unlike in the original, in the Clausen in the conflict between his love for a very young woman on the one hand and the irreconcilability of his children will fail on the other hand, the ruler -Clausen says away from his family disowned them and bequeathed the Clausen - works
" The State, ie the national community. I am sure that from the ranks of my workers and employees who have helped me build up the work, the man will arise who is called to continue my work. Does he come from the blast furnace or from the character table of the laboratory or by a vice, I will teach him little that is able to teach a Distinctive coming. Who is born to be the leader, no teacher needs for his own genius. "
Awards, Reception and reviews
Emil Jannings was honored at the 1937 Venice Film Festival with the award for Best Actor. The Board of Film of the Nazi Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda gave the film the title " State politically and artistically especially valuable ." In addition, The ruler in 1937 received the National Film Award.
The magazine praised The New Literature in May 1938, the performance of the non-political drama with real political content had succeeded: " The ruler is a political film, even more, he is a political work of art. The film makes the bourgeois publishers a Nazi business leaders. "
After the end of the Nazi regime, the ruler was banned because of it contains Nazi ideology of the Allied military censorship. After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, he was later classified as conditional film whose performance is limited. The performing and distribution rights reserved to the Friedrich -Wilhelm -Murnau -Stiftung.
Karsten Witte wrote in film in National Socialism, the resignation tendency of literature template has been replaced here by vigor: " Harlan's film, ostensibly to read as Familienmelodram, could be understood as a contribution of the industry to the Four-Year Plan of 1936. " The main theme of the template that bondage of the entrepreneur to his young mistress, had been rewritten by Thea von Harbou. The entrepreneur now waging a sympathetic fight against egoism and envy of his own family and eventually give away his work to the state and thus the national community. However, the political happy ending WOULD placed in today's perception.