The Night With the Emperor

{{Short description|1936 film}} {{use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Night With the Emperor | image =The Night With the Emperor.jpg | caption = | director = [[Erich Engel]] | producer = [[Eberhard Klagemann]] | writer = {{ubl|[[Ernst Marischka]]|[[Heinrich Oberländer]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Jenny Jugo]]|[[Richard Romanowsky]]|[[Friedrich Benfer]]}} | music = [[Hans-Otto Borgmann]] | cinematography = [[Bruno Mondi]] | editing = [[Carl Otto Bartning]] | studio = Klagemann-Film | distributor = [[Tobis Film|Rota-Film]] | released = {{film date|1936|12|22|df=y}} | runtime = 101 minutes | country = Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Night With the Emperor''''' ({{langx|de|'''Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser'''}}) is a 1936 German [[historical film|historical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Erich Engel]] and starring [[Jenny Jugo]], [[Richard Romanowsky]], and [[Friedrich Benfer]].{{sfn|Bock|Bergfelder|p=288}} It was shot at the [[Johannisthal Studios]] of [[Tobis Film]] in [[Berlin]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Karl Haacker]] and [[Hermann Warm]].<ref>Klaus p.160</ref> The film is set in 1808 at the [[Congress of Erfurt]].

==Cast== {{cast listing| * [[Jenny Jugo]] as Lisa Grossinger * [[Richard Romanowsky]] as Thomas Kellermeister * [[Friedrich Benfer]] as Heinz Heckmann * [[Hans Zesch-Ballot]] as [[Napoleon]] * [[Werner Scharf]] as De Brusset, Adjutant * [[Hans Leibelt]] as Bürgermeister von Erfurt * [[Walter Steinbeck]] as Director of Erfurt theatre * [[Paul Henckels]] as Manager of Erfurt theatre * [[Ernst G. Schiffner]] as [[Frederick Augustus I of Saxony|King of Sachsen]] * [[Otto Wögerer]] as [[Alexander I of Russia|Russian Tsar]] * [[Olga Limburg]] as Kammerfrau * [[Erika Helmke]] as Primadonna Elisabeth Frühwirt * [[Harry Frank]] as Schauspieler * [[Karl Platen]] as Intendant des Erfurter Stadttheaters * [[Theodor Thony]] as Napoleons Kammerdiener Lucien * [[Luise Hohorst]] as Lisa's wardrober * [[Angelo Ferrari]] as Russian general * [[Hans Schneider (actor)|Hans Schneider]] as Adjutant of King of Sachsen * [[Julius Brandt]] as Police president in Erfurt * [[Valy Arnheim]] as Leiter des Sicherheitsdienstes * [[Walter Bechmann]] as Napoleon's Kammerdiener * [[Fred Becker (actor)|Fred Becker]] as Student * [[Horst Birr]] as Student * [[Kurt Cramer]] as King of Wurtemberg * [[Wolf Dietrich]] as Student * [[Aribert Grimmer]] as Erfurt citizen * [[Karl Hannemann]] as French soldier in Erfurt * [[Hans Ludwig Hilmers]] as Prince Wilhelm * [[Charlie Albert Huber]] as Student * [[Antonie Jaeckel]] as Kellermanns Vermieterin * [[Ly Jankowski]] as Dame in Napoleon's Theaterloge * [[Carl Martin Kemper]] as French general * [[Fritz Klaudius]] as Erfurt citizen * [[Walter Kunkel]] as Student * [[Max Mothes]] as Der Inspizient * [[Waltraud Neckes]] as Die Souffleuse * [[Lotte Preuss]] as Eine Schauspielerin am Stadttheater * [[Rudolf Preuss]] as Young officer * [[Ernst Albert Schaach]] as Police officer in Erfurt * [[Alfred Schwarz]] as Young officer * [[Jörn Valery]] * [[Jens von Hagen]] as Russian general * [[Eduard Wenck]] as Gemüsehändler * [[Friedrich Wilke]] as Student }}

== References == {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Bock|Bergfelder}} | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }} * Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0141645}}

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