Sword and Shield (film) explained

Sword and Shield
Producer:	Gabriel Levy
Music:	Marc Roland
Studio:	Aafa-Film
Distributor:	Aafa-Film
Country:	Germany

Sword and Shield (German: Zopf und Schwert - Eine tolle Prinzessin) is a 1926 German silent historical romance film directed by Victor Janson and Rudolf Dworsky and starring Mady Christians, William Dieterle and Albert Steinrück.^[1] It is in the Prussian films tradition.

The film's sets were designed by Ernst Stern.

Cast

• • Mady Christians as Prinzessin Wilhelmine William Dieterle as Erbprinz von Bayreuth
• Albert Steinrück as Friedrich Wilhelm I, König von Preußen
• Hanni Weisse as Von Sonnsfeld, Hofdame der Prinzessin
• Julia Serda as Sophie Dorothea, Königin von Preußen
• Walter Janssen as Kronprinz Friedrich
• Harry Hardt as Graf Kayserlingk
• Robert Scholz as Hotham, englischer Gesandter
• Julius Falkenstein as Graf Seckendorf, kaiserl. -österreichisch. Gesandter
• Rudolf Lettinger as General von Grumbkow
• Paul Biensfeldt as Eversmann, Kammerdiener des Königs
• Max Gülstorff as Laharpe
• Theodor Loos as Eckhoff, Unteroffizier
• Wilhelm Diegelmann as Silberwäscher des Königs
• Sophie Pagay as Seine Frau

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Grange p.232