# The Night With the Emperor > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Night_With_the_Emperor > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Night_With_the_Emperor.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_With_the_Emperor > Source revision: 1341588173 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1936 film The Night With the Emperor Directed by Erich Engel Written by Ernst Marischka Heinrich Oberländer Produced by Eberhard Klagemann Starring Jenny Jugo Richard Romanowsky Friedrich Benfer Cinematography Bruno Mondi Edited by Carl Otto Bartning Music by Hans-Otto Borgmann Production company Klagemann-Film Distributed by Rota-Film Release date 22 December 1936 (1936-12-22) Running time 101 minutes Country Germany Language German ***The Night With the Emperor*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser***) is a 1936 German [historical](/source/Historical_film) [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Erich Engel](/source/Erich_Engel) and starring [Jenny Jugo](/source/Jenny_Jugo), [Richard Romanowsky](/source/Richard_Romanowsky), and [Friedrich Benfer](/source/Friedrich_Benfer).[1] It was shot at the [Johannisthal Studios](/source/Johannisthal_Studios) of [Tobis Film](/source/Tobis_Film) in [Berlin](/source/Berlin). The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Karl Haacker](/source/Karl_Haacker) and [Hermann Warm](/source/Hermann_Warm).[2] The film is set in 1808 at the [Congress of Erfurt](/source/Congress_of_Erfurt). ## Cast - [Jenny Jugo](/source/Jenny_Jugo) as Lisa Grossinger - [Richard Romanowsky](/source/Richard_Romanowsky) as Thomas Kellermeister - [Friedrich Benfer](/source/Friedrich_Benfer) as Heinz Heckmann - [Hans Zesch-Ballot](/source/Hans_Zesch-Ballot) as [Napoleon](/source/Napoleon) - [Werner Scharf](/source/Werner_Scharf) as De Brusset, Adjutant - [Hans Leibelt](/source/Hans_Leibelt) as Bürgermeister von Erfurt - [Walter Steinbeck](/source/Walter_Steinbeck) as Director of Erfurt theatre - [Paul Henckels](/source/Paul_Henckels) as Manager of Erfurt theatre - [Ernst G. Schiffner](/source/Ernst_G._Schiffner) as [King of Sachsen](/source/Frederick_Augustus_I_of_Saxony) - [Otto Wögerer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Otto_W%C3%B6gerer&action=edit&redlink=1) as [Russian Tsar](/source/Alexander_I_of_Russia) - [Olga Limburg](/source/Olga_Limburg) as Kammerfrau - [Erika Helmke](/source/Erika_Helmke) as Primadonna Elisabeth Frühwirt - [Harry Frank](/source/Harry_Frank) as Schauspieler - [Karl Platen](/source/Karl_Platen) as Intendant des Erfurter Stadttheaters - [Theodor Thony](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodor_Thony&action=edit&redlink=1) as Napoleons Kammerdiener Lucien - [Luise Hohorst](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luise_Hohorst&action=edit&redlink=1) as Lisa's wardrober - [Angelo Ferrari](/source/Angelo_Ferrari) as Russian general - [Hans Schneider](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Schneider_(actor)&action=edit&redlink=1) as Adjutant of King of Sachsen - [Julius Brandt](/source/Julius_Brandt) as Police president in Erfurt - [Valy Arnheim](/source/Valy_Arnheim) as Leiter des Sicherheitsdienstes - [Walter Bechmann](/source/Walter_Bechmann) as Napoleon's Kammerdiener - [Fred Becker](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Becker_(actor)&action=edit&redlink=1) as Student - [Horst Birr](/source/Horst_Birr) as Student - [Kurt Cramer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Cramer&action=edit&redlink=1) as King of Wurtemberg - [Wolf Dietrich](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wolf_Dietrich&action=edit&redlink=1) as Student - [Aribert Grimmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aribert_Grimmer&action=edit&redlink=1) as Erfurt citizen - [Karl Hannemann](/source/Karl_Hannemann) as French soldier in Erfurt - [Hans Ludwig Hilmers](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Ludwig_Hilmers&action=edit&redlink=1) as Prince Wilhelm - [Charlie Albert Huber](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charlie_Albert_Huber&action=edit&redlink=1) as Student - [Antonie Jaeckel](/source/Antonie_Jaeckel) as Kellermanns Vermieterin - [Ly Jankowski](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ly_Jankowski&action=edit&redlink=1) as Dame in Napoleon's Theaterloge - [Carl Martin Kemper](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl_Martin_Kemper&action=edit&redlink=1) as French general - [Fritz Klaudius](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Klaudius&action=edit&redlink=1) as Erfurt citizen - [Walter Kunkel](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Kunkel&action=edit&redlink=1) as Student - [Max Mothes](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Mothes&action=edit&redlink=1) as Der Inspizient - [Waltraud Neckes](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waltraud_Neckes&action=edit&redlink=1) as Die Souffleuse - [Lotte Preuss](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lotte_Preuss&action=edit&redlink=1) as Eine Schauspielerin am Stadttheater - [Rudolf Preuss](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Preuss&action=edit&redlink=1) as Young officer - [Ernst Albert Schaach](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst_Albert_Schaach&action=edit&redlink=1) as Police officer in Erfurt - [Alfred Schwarz](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Schwarz&action=edit&redlink=1) as Young officer - [Jörn Valery](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J%C3%B6rn_Valery&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Jens von Hagen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jens_von_Hagen&action=edit&redlink=1) as Russian general - [Eduard Wenck](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eduard_Wenck&action=edit&redlink=1) as Gemüsehändler - [Friedrich Wilke](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Wilke&action=edit&redlink=1) as Student ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBockBergfelder288_1-0)** [Bock & Bergfelder](#CITEREFBockBergfelder), p. 288. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Klaus p.160 ## Bibliography - [Bock, Hans-Michael](/source/Hans-Michael_Bock); Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). *The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema*. New York: Berghahn Books. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-57181-655-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-57181-655-9). - Klaus, Ulrich J. *Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936*. Klaus-Archiv, 1988. ## External links - [*The Night With the Emperor*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141645/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Erich Engel Love Is the Power of Women (1924) Who Takes Love Seriously? 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