The Empress of China (film)

1953 film

The Empress of China

Directed by| Steve Sekely
Written by|

* Hannes Peter Stolp (Wilhelm Hermann Löb)
* Vineta Bastian-Klinger

Produced by| Artur Brauner
Starring|

* Grethe Weiser
* Nadja Tiller
* Joachim Brennecke

Cinematography| Kurt Hasse
Edited by| Hermann Leitner
Music by| Michael Jary

Production
company

CCC Film

Distributed by| Prisma

Release date

* 25 September 1953 (1953-09-25)

Running time

| 85 minutes
Country| West Germany
Language| German

The Empress of China (German: Die Kaiserin von China) is a 1953 German comedy film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Grethe Weiser, Nadja Tiller and Joachim Brennecke.[1]

It was shot at the Spandau Studios and on location at Wannsee in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Schneider and Kurt Herlth.

## Cast

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* Grethe Weiser as Tante Clementine
* Nadja Tiller as Viktoria
* Joachim Brennecke as Heinrich Morland
* Ernst Waldow as Professor Mirrzahler
* Edith Schollwer as Frau Lose
* Kurt Vespermann as Herr Lose
* Ruth Stephan
* Erich Fiedler
* Ursula Herking
* Hans Zesch-Ballot as Dr. Stansberg
* Maria Zach
* Rolf Weih as Dr. Müller
* Wolfgang Neuss as Wonderful
* Wolfgang Müller [de] as Wanderstein
* Heinz Holl
* Gerd Vespermann
* Peter Lehmbrock
* Herbert Weissbach
* Joe Furtner
* Lys Assia as Sängerin
* Ilja Glusgal as Sänger
* Harold Horn as Dancer
* Liane Müller as Dancer
* Ursula Voß

## References

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1. ^ Bergfelder p. 125

## Bibliography

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* Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.

## External links

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* The Empress of China at IMDb

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Films directed by Steve Sekely

* The Great Longing (1930)
* Hyppolit, the Butler (1931)
* Flying Gold (1932)
* A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
* Rouletabille the Aviator (1932)
* Miss Iza (1933)
* Romance in Budapest (1933)
* Scandal in Budapest (1933)
* The Rakoczi March (1933)
* Cornflower (1934)
* Emmy (1934)
* Purple Lilacs (1934)
* Romance of Ida (1934)
* Ball at the Savoy (1935)
* Cafe Moscow (1936)
* Danube Rendezvous (1936)
* Be True Until Death (1936)
* Half-Rate Honeymoon (1936)
* Sensation (1936)
* A Girl Sets Out (1937)
* An Affair of Honour (1937)
* Help, I'm an Heiress (1937)
* Beauty of the Pusta (1937)
* Number 111 (1938)
* Young Noszty and Mary Toth (1938)
* Two Prisoners (1938)
* Miracle on Main Street (1939)
* Behind Prison Walls (1943)
* Women in Bondage (1943)
* Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
* Lady in the Death House (1944)
* Lake Placid Serenade (1944)
* Waterfront (1944)
* My Buddy (1944)
* The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)
* Blonde Savage (1947)
* Hollow Triumph (1948)
* Amazon Quest (1949)
* Stronghold (1951)
* The Empress of China (1953)
* Desert Desperadoes (1959)
* The Day of the Triffids (1963)
* Kenner (1969)

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