Royal love

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Movie
German title Royal love
Original title Saraband for Dead Lovers
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1948
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Basil Dearden
script John Dighton
Alexander Mackendrick
production Michael Balcon
Michael Relph
music Alan Rawsthorne
camera Douglas Slocombe
cut Michael Truman
occupation

Königsliebe (Original: Saraband for Dead Lovers ) is a British historical film drama from 1948. The film is about the tragic love affair between Princess Sophie Dorothea of ​​Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Count Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck .

action

The action begins in Schloss Ahlden . Exiled to the provinces decades ago, Sophie Dorothea ( Joan Greenwood ) remembers her youth at the end of her life. As a princess , she grew up carefree in the ducal castle of Celle , and for political reasons she married her cousin Georg Ludwig ( Peter Bull ), who later became King George I of Great Britain. However, the marriage is extremely unhappy for Sophie Dorothea, and so the neglected Electress begins a love affair with the attractive Count von Königsmarck ( Stewart Granger ). The relationship soon became public and Königsmarck was murdered in the Leineschloss in Hanover by the intrigue of Countess Platen ( Flora Robson ) . Sophie Dorothea is banished to Ahlden Castle, where she dies after being imprisoned for over 30 years.

criticism

The film service rates the film as "(a) elaborate and tastefully furnished historical melodrama."

Others

  • King Love was at the Oscars 1950 in the category Best Art Direction nominated.
  • The film is an adaptation of the book Saraband for Dead Lovers (1935) by the Australian writer Helen Simpson .
  • British gothic band Sex Gang Children made a song called Saraband for Dead Lovers .
  • The film was released in English cinemas on October 4, 1948. The German theatrical release was on November 25, 1949.

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