Film · Drama, History
The Blue Swords (1949)
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.
- Director
- Wolfgang Schleif
- Writers
- Alfred Böttcher
- Country
- XG
- Language
- German
- Release date
- December 30, 1949
- Original title
- Die blauen Schwerter
Cast
Hans QuestJohann Böttger
Ilse SteppatFrau von Tschirnhausen
Herbert HübnerNehmitz
Albert BesslerFinanzminister
Alexander EngelHerr von Tschirnhausen
Willy A. KleinauAugust der Starke- Marianne PrenzelKatharina
- Paul WagnerKönig Friedrich I.
Werner PledathKreisamtmann von Wittenberg- Klaus MiedelLaskari
- Rolf WeihLeutnant Menzel
- Johannes Bergfeldt
- Siegfried DornbuschKöhler
- Hans EmonsWildenstein
Hans FiebrandtGehilfe von Dünnbrot
Margarete SchönFrau Zorn
Erik von LoewisLeutnant von Kittwitz- Harry Gillmann
- Willy Kaiser-Heyl
- Wolfgang Kühne
