Intrigue and love affairs at the court of the Saxon King Augustus the Strong, who can bend a horseshoe with his bare hands and is fighting with the Swedish King Charles XII for control of Poland. When Charles marches against Russia with his troops and suffers defeat, the way is clear for Augustus, who gains the crown of Poland. But he is already old and ill. When he dies in Warsaw, his heart is brought to Dresden by Saxon horsemen.
Cast
Michael Bohnen
August der Starke
Lil Dagover
Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
Marieluise Claudius
Gräfin Anna Constanze Cosel
Franz Schafheitlin
Flemming
Paul Mederow
Pöppelmann
Ernst Legal
Graf Saumagen
Walther Suessenguth
Fürstenberg
Gustav Püttjer
Unknown
Ruth Eweler
Unknown
Angelo Ferrari
Unknown
Wanda Jarszewska
Eine polnische Wirtin
Franciszek Brodniewicz
Adelsmarschall
Tamara Wiszniewska
Jasia
Maria Balcerkiewiczówna
Fürstin Jablonska
