The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equipped with everything he would need for the task, but he has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain—white porcelain, as the Chinese are said to possess. In 1709, he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," the first white porcelain made in Europe, he hopes for freedom.
as Johann Böttger
as Frau von Tschirnhausen
as Nehmitz
as Finanzminister
as Herr von Tschirnhausen
as August der Starke
as Katharina
as König Friedrich I.
as Kreisamtmann von Wittenberg
as Laskari
as Leutnant Menzel
as Köhler
as Wildenstein
as Gehilfe von Dünnbrot
as Frau Zorn
as Leutnant von Kittwitz
as Kommandant der Bastei
