

The Blue Swords
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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.
Cast

Hans Quest
Johann Böttger

Ilse Steppat
Frau von Tschirnhausen

Herbert Hübner
Nehmitz

Albert Bessler
Finanzminister

Alexander Engel
Herr von Tschirnhausen

Willy A. Kleinau
August der Starke

Marianne Prenzel
Katharina

Paul Wagner
König Friedrich I.

Werner Pledath
Kreisamtmann von Wittenberg

Klaus Miedel
Laskari

Rolf Weih
Leutnant Menzel

Johannes Bergfeldt

Siegfried Dornbusch
Köhler

Hans Emons
Wildenstein

Hans Fiebrandt
Gehilfe von Dünnbrot

Margarete Schön
Frau Zorn

Erik von Loewis
Leutnant von Kittwitz

Harry Gillmann

Willy Kaiser-Heyl

Wolfgang Kühne

Franz Lichtenauer

Heinz Lingen

Alfred Maack

Peter Marx

Otto Matthies

Willi Narloch

Edmund Pouch

Martin Rosen

Henning Schlüter

Walter Schramm

Werner Segtrop

Otto Stoeckel

Robert Taube

Friedrich Teitge

Axel Triebel

Nico Turoff

Inge van der Straaten
