The Favourite of the Queen () is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Franz Seitz and starring Erich Kaiser-Titz, Hanna Ralph and Willy Kaiser-Heyl.Bock & Bergfelder p.366 It is based on a Georg Hirschfeld play set in Elizabethan England, focusing on the tumultuous relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and her favorite, the Earl of Essex, amid court intrigue and a deadly epidemic.
The film was shot at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Reiber.
Cast Erich Kaiser-Titz as Lord Surrey Hanna Ralph as Königin Elisabeth Willy Kaiser-Heyl as Pembroke Maria Mindzenty as Evelyne Oskar Marion as Comte Warwick Alf Blütecher as Arthur Leyde Otto Kronburger Carl Goetz Elise Aulinger Ferdinand Martini Albert Patry
References
Bibliography Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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