The Blue Swords
The Blue Swords is a 1949 East German historical drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat and Alexander Engel. It sold more than 3,299,432 tickets. The film portrays the life of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an alchemist of the early eighteenth century who was held prisoner by the Elector of Saxony in order to discover the secret of gold production. Failing to accomplish this, which he knows to be impossible, he instead works to develop porcelain. The title refers to the symbol of Meissen, a pair of crossed swords. His story had previously been turned into a 1935 film The King's Prisoner, released during the Nazi era.
Cast
- Albert Bessler
- Alexander Engel
- Alfred Maack
- Alfred Walter
- Axel Max Triebel
- Erik von Loewis
- Hans Fiebrandt
- Hans Quest
- Henning Schlüter
- Herbert Hübner
- Ilse Steppat
- Klaus Miedel
- Margarete Schön
- Nico Turoff
- Otto Hermann August Stoeckel
- Paul Wilhelm Hubert Wagner
- Robert Taube
- Rolf Weih
- Siegfried Dornbusch
- Walter Schramm
- Werner Pledath
- Willi Narloch
- Willy A. Kleinau
- Willy Kaiser-Heyl
- Wolfgang Kühne
More details
| author | Alfred Böttcher |
|---|---|
| director | Wolfgang Schleif |
| editor | Hermann Ludwig |
| genre | drama historical |
| musicBy | Walter Sieber |
| productionCompany | DEFA |
| publisher | Progress Film |
| theme | biographical |