Louise de Lavallière (film) explained

Louise de Lavallière
Producer:	Karl Julius Fritzsche
Distributor:	Zenith Filmverleih
Country:	Germany
Language:	Silent German intertitles

Louise de Lavallière is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Georg Burghardt and starring Emmy Schaeff, Fritz Delius and Ernst Hofmann.^[1] It portrays the life of the seventeenth century French courtesan Louise de La Vallière, a lover of Louis XIV.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Botho Hoefer.

Cast

• Emmy Schaeff as Louise de La Valliére
• Fritz Delius as Louis XIV
• Ernst Hofmann as Graf Pierre de Renauld
• Eva Speyer as Maria Theresia
• Olga Engl as Anna von Österreich
• Erna Morena as Henriette Anna von England
• Leo Connard as Herzog Philipp von Orleans
• Poldi Augustin as Marquise von Remis
• Hans Wassmann as Graf de Guiche
• Max Kronert as La Vienne, Kammerdiener
• Gertrude Hoffman as Marquise Françoise Athenais von Montespan
• Kurt Middendorf as Herzog von Lauzun
• Boris Michailow as Colbert, Generalkontrolleur
• Max Mothes as Le Nôtre, Chef der königlichen Gärten
• Toni Tetzlaff as Gräfin von Soisson, Oberhofmeisterin
• Sophie Pagay as Madame Voisin

Bibliography

• Grange, William. Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Notes and References

1. Grange p.109