The Empress of China (film)

The Empress of China
Directed by	Steve Sekely
Written by	Hannes Peter Stolp (Wilhelm Hermann Löb) Vineta Bastian-Klinger
Produced by	Artur Brauner
Starring	Grethe Weiser Nadja Tiller Joachim Brennecke
Cinematography	Kurt Hasse
Edited by	Hermann Leitner
Music by	Michael Jary
Production company	CCC Film
Distributed by	Prisma
Release date	25 September 1953 (1953-09-25)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Empress of China (German : Die Kaiserin von China) is a 1953 German comedy film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Grethe Weiser, Nadja Tiller and Joachim Brennecke. ^[1]

It was shot at the Spandau Studios and on location at Wannsee in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Schneider and Kurt Herlth.

Cast

• Grethe Weiser as Tante Clementine
• Nadja Tiller as Viktoria
• Joachim Brennecke as Heinrich Morland
• Ernst Waldow as Professor Mirrzahler
• Edith Schollwer as Frau Lose
• Kurt Vespermann as Herr Lose
• Ruth Stephan
• Erich Fiedler
• Ursula Herking
• Hans Zesch-Ballot as Dr. Stansberg
• Maria Zach
• Rolf Weih as Dr. Müller
• Wolfgang Neuss as Wonderful
• Wolfgang Müller  [ de ] as Wanderstein
• Heinz Holl
• Gerd Vespermann
• Peter Lehmbrock
• Herbert Weissbach
• Joe Furtner
• Lys Assia as Sängerin
• Ilja Glusgal as Sänger
• Harold Horn as Dancer
• Liane Müller as Dancer
• Ursula Voß

References

1. Bergfelder p. 125

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. ISBN   978-1-57181-539-2.

External links

• The Empress of China at IMDb