Beautiful Wilhelmine

West German historical television series

Beautiful Wilhelmine

Genre	Historical drama
Based on	Die schöne Wilhelmine by Ernst von Salomon
Written by	Karl Wittlinger
Directed by	Rolf von Sydow
Starring	Anja Kruse Rainer Hunold Johannes Heesters
Composer	Günther Fischer
Country of origin	West Germany
Original language	German
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Original release
Network	ZDF
Release	6 September (1984-09-06) – 16 September 1984 (1984-09-16)

Beautiful Wilhelmine (German: Die schöne Wilhelmine) is a West German historical television series broadcast on ZDF in four episodes in 1984. It is an adaptation of the novel Die schöne Wilhelmine by Ernst von Salomon.^[1] It is based on the life of Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau and her relationship with the Prussian King Frederick William II of Prussia.

Cast

Anja Kruse as Wilhelmine
Rainer Hunold as Kronprinz, later Fridrich Wilhelm II
Andreas Seyferth as Hannes
Herbert Stass as Friedrich II.
Johannes Heesters as Marschall Keith
Beatrice Richter as Luise
Silvia Reize as Elisabeth
Liesel Christ as Landgräfin
Hans-Werner Bussinger as Dr. Heim
Raphael Wilczek as Matuschkyn
Jean-Claude Brialy as Casanova
Margit Geissler as Christiane
Wolfgang Höper as Bischoffswerder
Marie Versini as Mme. Girard
Ljuba Krbová as Minettchen

References

^ Klossner p.342

Bibliography

Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500–1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company, 2002.