Lola Montez, the King’s Dancer

Deviating from the historical facts, Lola is introduced as a young Spanish “Gypsy” who becomes involuntarily embroiled in an attempt to poison the Infante of Spain (a short but splendid cameo by Heinrich George). As a result, she has to flee the country, arriving first in Italy, where she is taught how to act like a lady. Later, in Paris, she is invited to dance at the city’s prestigious opera house, becoming a worldwide sensation. She then becomes secretly involved in a revolutionary plot by Louis Napoléon, the future emperor of France. When the plot fails, Lola is once again forced to flee, this time to Munich, where she captures the attention of Ludwig I. Their ensuing affair arouses a great deal of hatred among the people and the establishment, however. In the end, Lola has no choice but to leave again, and vanishes into the night mist.

• Willi WolffWriter
• Willi WolffDirector
• Paul MerzbachWriter

• Ellen RichterLola Montez
• Georg AlexanderStudiosus Ludwig von Hirschberg
• Heinrich GeorgeDon Miguel
• Max GülstorffJournalist Beauvallion
• Hans JunkermannHoftheaterintendant
• Fritz KampersLieutenant Nussbaum
• Rudolf Meinhard-JüngerCast
• Herbert PaulmüllerCast
• Hermann PichaCast
• Wilhelm DiegelmannCast
• Julius FalkensteinCast
• Ernst PittschauStudiosus Peisner