Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining to start life anew, he falls in love with his secretary Inken (Marianne Hoppe) and impulsively takes a vacation to Italy. Clausen's selfish grown children, not wishing to share their father's affections -- nor his money -- with his new wife-to-be, go to court demanding that Clausen be declared mentally incompetent. Upon finding this out, Clausen flies into a rage, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not he really as gone off his trolley. Der Herrscher was directed by Veit Harlan, more famous (or notorious) for his viciously anti-Semitic Jud Suess (1940).
as Matthias Clausen
as Inken Peters
as Bettina Clausen
as Ottilie Klamroth
as Direktor Erich Klamroth
as Klothilde Clausen
as Diener Winter
as Direktor Hofer
as Sanitätsrat Geiger
as Rechtsanwalt Hanefeld
as Professor Wolfgang Clausen
as Egert
as Direktor Bodlfing
