Overview

In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…

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Cast

William Dieterle

Ludwig II - König von Bayern

Theodor Loos

Dr. von Gudden

Hubert von Meyerinck

Eugen Burg

Ferdinand von Alten

Gerhard Bienert

Hesselschwerdt

Josef Reithofer

Michael von Newlinsky

Arthur Duarte

Max Schreck

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Otto von Wittelsbach (as H.H. von Twardowsky)

Rina Marsa

Herzogin Sophie