The Queen's Secretary
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Queen's Secretary |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | approx. 61 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Wiene |
| script | Robert Wiene |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| music | Giuseppe Becce |
| camera | Karl friend |
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The Queen's Secretary is a German silent film game of confusion from 1916 by Robert Wiene with Ressel Orla and Käthe Dorsch in the leading roles.
action
The still underage Queen of Illyria has been married to the commandant of her castle guard, Count Mirko Danitschef, for some time, without the public knowing. One day a Viennese operetta troupe arrives in the kingdom, with the diva Stella Cavalieri as their star. Stella was once Mirko's lover. The Queen forbids the troops to appear in her kingdom, whereupon Stella asks an audience with the monarch in order to put them graciously. As luck would have it, she ended up in Count Mirkos, alias the Prince Consort's apartment, where the two of them met again for the first time since their time together from Vienna.
There is a joyful greeting, but at this very moment Her Majesty bursts in. In no time at all, Stella hides, quickly puts on a uniform and is introduced to the queen as Mirko's brother. The ruler takes a liking to the young “man”, her “brother-in-law”, and hires him as her new secretary. Now all kinds of amusing twists and turns develop. One day a quirky US millionaire named Castor appears, who falls in love with the singer Stella, aka Mirko's brother, aka the Queen's secretary ...
Production notes
The Queen's Secretary was shot in early 1916, passed film censorship in March 1916 and premiered on April 3, 1916 in the Mozart Hall in Berlin. The three-act act was 1,244 meters long. The film, which is only 950 meters long, was shown in Austria-Hungary under the title The Duchess's Secretary . This comedy could be seen in Denmark in 1917.
The film structures were also created by Robert Wiene.