
In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…
- 5.0
- 1930
- Released
- 1h 57m

Theodor Loos
Dr. von Gudden
Hubert von Meyerinck

Eugen Burg

Ferdinand von Alten

Gerhard Bienert
Hesselschwerdt
Friedrich Ettel

Franz Neuner

Georg Guertler

Josef Reithofer

Michael von Newlinsky

Harro Helwig

Paul Günther

Max Schreck

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Otto von Wittelsbach (as H.H. von Twardowsky)
Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein

Trude von Molo
Kaiserin Elisabeth 'Sissi' von Österreich
Rina Marsa
Herzogin Sophie
Maria Markstein

Johanna Klemperer
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