King in Shadow

The film portrays the interaction of Johann Friedrich Struensee, a doctor treating the mentally ill Christian VII of Denmark, and his English consort Caroline Matilda.

• Odo KrohmannWriter
• Gerhard MenzelWriter
• Harald BraunWriter
• Harald BraunDirector

• O.W. FischerFriedrich Struensee
• Odile VersoisQueen Mathilde
• Horst BuchholzKing Christian
• Fritz TillmannCount Rantzau
• Elisabeth FlickenschildtQueen Juliane
• Siegfried LowitzKammerherr Guldberg
• Ingeborg SchönerGertrud von Eyben
• Helmuth LohnerKammerherr Graf Holck
• Günther HadankCast
• Wilfried Jan HeynCast
• Gerhard RitterCast
• Peter EsserCast