The Blue Swords

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The Blue Swords

1949

1h 39m

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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.

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Hans Quest

Johann Böttger

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Ilse Steppat

Frau von Tschirnhausen

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Herbert Hübner

Nehmitz

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Albert Bessler

Finanzminister

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Alexander Engel

Herr von Tschirnhausen

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Willy A. Kleinau

August der Starke

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Marianne Prenzel

Katharina

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Paul Wagner

König Friedrich I.

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Werner Pledath

Kreisamtmann von Wittenberg

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Klaus Miedel

Laskari

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Rolf Weih

Leutnant Menzel

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Johannes Bergfeldt

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Siegfried Dornbusch

Köhler

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Hans Emons

Wildenstein

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Hans Fiebrandt

Gehilfe von Dünnbrot

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Margarete Schön

Frau Zorn

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Erik von Loewis

Leutnant von Kittwitz

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Harry Gillmann

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Willy Kaiser-Heyl

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Wolfgang Kühne

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Franz Lichtenauer

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Heinz Lingen

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Alfred Maack

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Peter Marx

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Otto Matthies

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Willi Narloch

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Edmund Pouch

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Martin Rosen

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Henning Schlüter

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Walter Schramm

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Werner Segtrop

Kommandant der Bastei

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Otto Stoeckel

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Robert Taube

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Friedrich Teitge

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Axel Triebel

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Nico Turoff

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Inge van der Straaten

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Walter Weinacht

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