Overview

The young Crown Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz grows up sheltered in the North German countryside in the late 18th century and develops into a bit of a rebel. She struggles to come to terms with the rules of etiquette at court; her actions are often spontaneous and driven by emotion. Thus, she resists accepting her father’s mistress and future wife. During a ball, she snubs her future stepmother and even has the audacity to ask the orchestra to play a waltz—a dance considered deeply improper at the time.

Genres

Cast

Mady Christians

Königin Luise

Mathias Wieman

König Friedrich Wilhelm III.

Helga Molander

Prinzessin Luise Radziwill

Adele Sandrock

Gräfin Voß

Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Prinz Louis Ferdinand

Hedwig Wangel

Prinzessin Georg-Wilhelm von Hessen-Darmstad

Theodor Loos

Staatskanzler Fürst Hardenberg

Ida Wüst

Königin Friederike

Lotte Lorring

Madame Ritz Gräfin von Lichtenau

Ferdinand von Alten

Zar Alexander

Hans Mierendorff

König Friedrich Wilhelm II.

Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg

Königin-Witwe Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig