Fridericus
- Otto fee: Frederick II of Prussia
- Hilde Körber: Wilhelmine of Bayreuth
- Lil Dagover: Marquise de Pompadour
- Agnes Straub: Elizabeth of Russia
- Käthe Haack: Maria Theresa of Austria
- Bernhard Minetti: Count Wallis
- Paul Klinger: Captain von Bonin
- Carola Höhn: Louise von Bonin
- Lucie Polite: Woman Büttner
- William King: Student
- Paul Dahlke: Field Marshal von Dessau
- Bruno Ziener: General Zieten
- Hermann Frick: Lieutenant Black
- Paul Westerberg Meier: Musketeer Gin
- Heinrich Schroth: Captain von Droste
- Karl Platen: Fredersdorf
- Hans Mierdorf Chamberlain von Tresckow
- Will Dohm: Baron Warkotsch
- Alfred Gerasch: Field Marshal Daun
- Ernst Karchow: State Chancellor Kaunitz
Fridericus (alternatively Fridericus The old Fritz or Old Fritz) is a German, turned into black and white, historical film from the year 1936. The film is based on the novel by Walter von Molo and plays at the time of the Seven Years War.
Action
The Prussian army is at the end. Completely exhausted she is surrounded in their camp by the Austrians. The soldiers begin to slowly come to terms with their hopeless fate, the king discovered during a reconnaissance ride a gap through which the Prussians to evacuate their encirclement. He leaves behind only a small regiment of hussars under the command of Captain von Bonin, so the Austrians are of the opinion that the Prussians were still in the camp. As the Austrians under Field Marshal von Daun notice that they guarded only empty tents, the Prussian army is already on the way to Schweidnitz.
Totally outraged by the news that it has not yet succeeded in forcing Frederick to his knees, can Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, quit all festivities at the court. Since her Count Wallis brings the news from Paris that the French are sending 50,000 men gain. Wallis is sent for consultation to the Austrian camp under Marshal Daun.
Friedrich makes after he has been made aware of the famine and plundering of the Austrians from his subjects, on the way to Schloss Hubertus like where he wants to stay as a guest of Baron Warkotsch. Baron Warkotsch plans with Count Wallis, to kidnap the king that night. The plan may by the Captain Bonin, who overheard the two can be prevented early.
Soon after Berlin was occupied by the Russian army. When Frederick learns of this, he is devastated. The generals ask already for their dismissal, which Friedrich however does not allow. He pulls himself together and gives his soldiers and generals courage again. Release pull to the next battle. After several attacks stuck on a majority of Austrian soldiers he wins the battle with the help of General Zieten and his hussars.
Reviews
" Formal below average biography; of cheap scenes sounded patriotic sayings, and a few dozen extras pull in a lame battle. A purified from intrusive Nazi tendencies version of the film " Fridericus " (whose performance was initially banned after the war by the Allies ), which nevertheless still shortens the historical events in one-sided way. "
Others
- The novel was made into a film in 1922, entitled Fridericus Rex IV of Arzén of Cserépy in which Otto fee also took over the role of the Prussian king.
- Otto fee takes over here for the ninth time the role of Frederick II, he plays for the last time in 1942 in The Great King.
- The mid-50s they wanted to make a film with Otto fee in the role of Frederick II again. However, since these died prematurely and the project was thus abandoned, they instead took Fridericus back in the cinemas, because you did not think of this film as one of the few this time, for propaganda purposes. The film now got the title The old Fritz.