The Ring of the Empress

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The Ring of the Empress
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Directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky
Written by
Produced by Georg Witt
Starring Lil Dagover
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Production
company
Greenbaum-Film
Distributed bySüd-Film
Release date
  • 27 January 1930 (1930-01-27)
CountryGermany
Languages

The Ring of the Empress (German: Spielereien einer Kaiserin) is a 1930 German silent film directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky and starring Lil Dagover. [1] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.

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  1. Goble p.963

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