Archduke Johann's Great Love

Archduke Johann's Great Love
Directed by
Written by	(novel)
Produced by
Starring	Marte Harell O.W. Fischer Christl Mardayn
Cinematography	Günther Anders
Edited by
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	Patria-Filmkunst-Produktion
Distributed by	Panorama-Film
Release date	3 December 1950
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

Archduke Johann's Great Love (German: Erzherzog Johanns große Liebe) is a 1950 Austrian historical romantic drama film directed by and starring Marte Harell, O.W. Fischer and Christl Mardayn.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors and Werner Schlichting.

Synopsis[]

Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the more liberal-minded Habsburg Archduke John supports reforms in the Austrian Empire and German Confederation but is thwarted by machinations of the reactionary Klemens von Metternich. Things are complicated further when Archduke John falls in love with the commoner Anna Plochl and wishes to marry her.

Cast[]

• Marte Harell as Anna Plochl
• O.W. Fischer as Erzherzog Johann
• Christl Mardayn as Kaiserin
• Josef Meinrad as Vertrauter des Erzherzogs
• Leopold Rudolf as Invalider Tiroler
• Albin Skoda as Fuerst Metternich
• Franz Pfaudler as Plochl, Posthalter von Aussee
• Franz Herterich as Kaiser Franz I.
• Oskar Sima as Armbrustschuetze
• Theodor Danegger as Diener
• Auguste Pünkösdy as Zofe

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity . Berghahn Books, 2013.
• Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.

External links[]

• Archduke Johann's Great Love at IMDb

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