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Amore di principe (1933)

Amore di principe poster
Original title
Des jungen Dessauers grosse Liebe
Directed by
Arthur Robison
Genre
historical film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 21m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A prince falls in love with a woman who is not of noble birth. The story follows their courtship and the challenges of class difference.

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What happens

Young Dessau's Great Love (German: Des jungen Dessauers große Liebe) is a 1933 German historical romance film directed by Arthur Robison and starring Willy Fritsch, Trude Marlen and Paul Hörbiger. The film is based on the real-life courtship between Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Anna Luise Föhse. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by Erich Kettelhut and Max Mellin. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. A separate French-language version, Tambour battant, was also produced. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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