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The Young Lady of Barnhelm

5.8 86 mins Comedy   1940
Bavaria Film  
Director(s): Hans Schweikart

Release Date: 22 Tue, Oct 1940

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends he is discharged and left penniless when the government suspects his noble deed was actually due to a bribe. Believing his lost honour makes him unworthy Tellheim breaks his engagement to Minna von Barnhelm, but she tracks him down to a Berlin tavern to win him back. To test his love Minna pretends she has also lost her wealth, prompting Tellheim’s protective instincts to finally override his stubborn pride. The film concludes with a royal decree from Frederick the Great, restoring Tellheim's rank and fortune and allowing the couple to marry.

Casts of The Young Lady of Barnhelm

Käthe Gold

as Minna von Barnhelm

Ewald Balser

as Major von Telheim

Theo Lingen

as Riccaut de la Marlinière

Fita Benkhoff

as Franziska

Paul Dahlke

as Just

Erich Ponto

as Wirt

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

as Von Schornow

Fritz Kampers

as Wachtmeister Werner

Hans Leibelt

as Graf Bruchsall

Paul Wagner

as Hauptmann Marloff

Max Eckard

as Cornet von Bonin

Albert Lippert

as Prinz Heinrich

Eduard von Winterstein

as Müller Willig

Gustav Waldau

as Juwelier

Ingolf Kuntze

as Sächsischer Gesandter

Peter Pasetti

as 2. Offizier

Fritz Reiff

as Stabsoffizier

Friedrich Ulmer

as Vorsitzender des Kriegsgerichts

Annemarie Holtz

as Schauspielerin

Erna Sellmer

as 1. sächsische Dame

Lisa Helwig

as 2. Sächsische Dame

Luise Hohorst

as 3. Sächsische Dame

Else Kündinger

as 4. Sächsische Dame

Kurt Stieler

as Ältester der Sächsischen Stände

Herbert Kroll

as Diener

Otto Brefin

as Sekretär

Charles Willy Kayser

as 1. Offizier

Werner Vogeler

as Schreiber

Julius Riedmüller

as Feldjäger

Kurt Eick

as Preussischer Korporal

Margarete Haagen

as Sächsische Greisin

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