

30/12/1949
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.

Hans Quest
as Johann Böttger

Ilse Steppat
as Frau von Tschirnhausen

Herbert Hübner
as Nehmitz

Albert Bessler
as Finanzminister

Alexander Engel
as Herr von Tschirnhausen

Willy A. Kleinau
as August der Starke

Marianne Prenzel
as Katharina

Paul Wagner
as König Friedrich I.

Werner Pledath
as Kreisamtmann von Wittenberg

Klaus Miedel
as Laskari

Rolf Weih
as Leutnant Menzel

Johannes Bergfeldt
as

Siegfried Dornbusch
as Köhler

Hans Emons
as Wildenstein

Hans Fiebrandt
as Gehilfe von Dünnbrot

Margarete Schön
as Frau Zorn

Erik von Loewis
as Leutnant von Kittwitz

Harry Gillmann
as

Willy Kaiser-Heyl
as

Wolfgang Kühne
as

Franz Lichtenauer
as

Heinz Lingen
as

Alfred Maack
as

Peter Marx
as

Otto Matthies
as

Willi Narloch
as

Edmund Pouch
as

Martin Rosen
as

Henning Schlüter
as

Walter Schramm
as

Werner Segtrop
as Kommandant der Bastei

Otto Stoeckel
as

Robert Taube
as

Friedrich Teitge
as

Axel Triebel
as

Nico Turoff
as

Inge van der Straaten
as

Walter Weinacht
as
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