Young Dessau's Great Love

Young Dessau's Great Love
Directed byArthur Robison
Written byBobby E. Lüthge
Philipp Lothar Mayring
Christian Uhlenbruck
Produced byMax Pfeiffer
StarringWilly Fritsch
Trude Marlen
Paul Hörbiger
CinematographyFriedl Behn-Grund
Edited byHerbert B. Fredersdorf
Music byEduard Künneke
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 22 December 1933 (1933-12-22)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Young Dessau's Great Love (German: Des jungen Dessauers große Liebe) is a 1933 German historical romance film directed by Arthur Robison and starring Willy Fritsch, Trude Marlen and Paul Hörbiger.[1][2] The film is based on the real-life courtship between Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Anna Luise Föhse. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by Erich Kettelhut and Max Mellin. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.[3] A separate French-language version, Tambour battant, was also produced.

Synopsis

In the late seventeenth century Leopold, the Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, falls in love with Anna Luise the daughter of an apothecary. Leopold's mother the dowager duchess is appalled at such a gulf in social status and does everything she can to break the couple up so that her son can marry a princess of equal rank. Leopold goes off to serve in the Nine Years' War, but hearing that his mother is now trying to pressuure Anna Luise into marrying another man, he sends his sergeant to rescue her. The couple marry morganatically, but the sympathetic Emperor issues a decree raising Anna Luise to the rank of countess so she is now of acceptable rank.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Kreimeier p.218
  2. ↑ Klaus p.30
  3. ↑ "Des jungen Dessauers große Liebe | filmportal.de". www.filmportal.de. Retrieved 2026-05-14.

Bibliography

  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1933. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
  • Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
  • Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942. McFarland & Co, 2008.
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