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King in Shadow

19576.1 / 10104 min

Drama

Overview

The film portrays the interaction of Johann Friedrich Struensee, a doctor treating the mentally ill Christian VII of Denmark, and his English consort Caroline Matilda.

Cast

O.W. Fischer

Friedrich Struensee

Odile Versois

Queen Mathilde

Horst Buchholz

King Christian

Fritz Tillmann

Count Rantzau

Elisabeth Flickenschildt

Queen Juliane

Siegfried Lowitz

Kammerherr Guldberg

Ingeborg Schöner

Gertrud von Eyben

Helmuth Lohner

Kammerherr Graf Holck

Günther Hadank

Wilfried Jan Heyn

Gerhard Ritter

Peter Esser

Heini Göbel

Georg Lehn

Crew

Georg Richter

Producer

Göran Strindberg

Director of Photography

Odo Krohmann

Writer

Harald Braun

Writer

Werner Eisbrenner

Music

Hilwa von Boro

Editor

Gerhard Menzel

Writer

Harald Braun

Producer

Robert Neumann

Novel

Harald Braun

Director