"The film "The Old Fritz" was shot from August to December 1927 in the National Film Studios in Berlin-Tempelhof and surroundings." "Part I "Peace" had its premiere on 3 January 1928 at the Berlin Ufa Palast at the Zoo, part II "Conclusion" on 20 January 1928." "Both parts passed the censor on 16 and 23 Dec. 1927, with a length of 3484 m and 3213 m each." "Titles censored in 1927 were inserted into this DVD edition in neutral typeface." "Scene cuts demanded by the censor were restored, when still existant." "The basis for the digital reconstruction was a 35 mm print of the Bundesarchiv Berlin, with additions from a 16 mm print of the Deutsche Kinemathek." "Compared to the original cut as presented to the censor, from part one ca. 4 min. are missing, from part two one min." "The reconstruction for this DVD is a cooperation of the Filmmuseum Potsdam and the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen." "The Old Fritz" "title role:" "Otto Gebühr part one:" "Peace" "The year 1762 was about to end." "One ought to massacre you!" "Such a small loaf for 3 good groschens [10 penny piece]." "Seven years of war!" "Where do you want me to find the flour?" "!" "In winter quarters in the palace of Dahlen, near Leipzig ..." "His Excellency, Privy Councillor von Hertzberg." "The Austrians are willing to negotiate." "Admit it ..." "it was high time!" "Gentlemen, the Austrians want to negotiate." "New Year's Eve has come." "In the Royal Palace of Berlin, on the third floor   lives Frau von Camas, for whom Friedrich feels a special attachment." "You'll find me grown old and almost childish, turned grey like a mule, losing a tooth every day and half lame with gout." "Your most affectionate Friedrich" "Her Royal Highness, Princess Amalia of Prussia." "In the old days, the King used to spend the end of the year with his old lady friends." "During the last hours of the year, the ladies ruled." "We haven't seen him for seven years!" "I wonder if he has changed." "On 15 February 1763, at Hubertusburg, Prussia, Austria and Saxony were negotiating for peace." "Prussia doesn't think of returning Glatz!" "[county in Bohemia]" "And Austria won't sign without Glatz!" "My coach!" "At once!" "Very well." "I'll sign!" "Corporal Lempel" "The Austrians!" "The Austrians have made peace!" "Now it'll soon be back to mummy!" "It's a good thing, this peace we've concluded." "But one mustn't show it." "I owe the honourable end of the war only to the fact that I kept my last thaler in my pocket." "The Queen." "Your Majesty, I have a serious complaint to make against His Royal Highness, the Prince of Prussia." "He's chasing after every skirt." "Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the Crown Prince." "He's reporting on you again." "I've heard that you frequent persons not worthy of a Prince of Prussia." "I promised your late father to watch over your education." "You're causing me pain." "His Majesty your uncle won't be pleased." "Prince Heinrich, the King's brother." "Peace has been signed." "Will you grant me a new coat for the peace celebrations?" "The festive coat was important for other gents too." "The Marquis d'Argens, the King's friend." "Blue with silver, His Majesty's favourite colours." "So it'll be blue with silver." "30 March 1763" "This is the most beautiful day in His Majesty's life!" "The most beautiful day in one's life is the day one is leaving it." "To the palace, by the backstreets." "Madame has become stout." "Soon after his return Friedrich resumes the government and tries to bring some order into the chaos." "I wish I could repair the damages of war." "I exempted the Neumark province from paying taxes for two years." "I must do the same for Pommerania, the province has suffered terribly." "I love the Pommeranian like a brother." "He always assisted me in defending the fatherland with his soil and blood." "His Majesty's order:" "His Royal Highness is to report for duty tomorrow at Potsdam." "Madame, allow me to say farewell." "I'm leaving for Potsdam." "You shall reside at the palace of Schönhausen." "I hope you approve of my choice." "Sanssouci" "I want to be left alone." "Ten minutes." "Soldiering and playing the flute don't go together." "Not far from Sanssouci stands Corporal Lempel's house." "Mother, a strange man is here." "I want to teach my subjects a double feat, to save money and to earn money at the same time." "I'm asking for suggestions within six days how to uplift the industry." "In summer Friedrich leaves on an inspection tour." "You mustn't fall on your knees before me." "You must do this only before God!" "Counsellor for War Rohden, as Your Majesty ordered." "I've heard much good about you." "I want to rebuild your desolate villages." "Make inquiries and come back in eight days." "After his return, Friedrich visited the porcellain factory of the merchant Gotzkowsky." "So he isn't able to continue operating the factory?" "I lost all my money in the war, because I didn't transfer it abroad like the other Berlin merchants." "I want to help you." "I'll take over the factory." "One of the first to be honoured with a product from the Royal Porcellain Manufacture [KPM], is old Zieten... who at 64 married his young niece." "I would have loved to come and dance at your wedding if my gout hadn't kept me from it." "Friedrich" "A year has passed in tireless work for the reconstruction of Prussia." "The smelting works aren't just for making bombs forever." "One must produce ironwares, steel, wire and tin." "Near Sansouci the Earl Marischal Keith keeps a strange household." "I'm worried about the Crown Prince;" "he has inclinations I don't approve of." "What's your name, pretty girl?" "Wilhelmine Enke." "My sister." "Do you want to get away from here?" "Wilhelmine's mother, the musician Enke's widow, doesn't suspect what important part her daughter is about to play at court." "Our little Minna is much better off in Berlin with her sister." "She'll find her an engagement at the theatre." "Mother, I'm not going back to Berlin." "Augusta is always beating me." "His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia desires that Demoiselle Wilhelmine stays here." "I hear you frequent loose women." "Such conduct is unworthy for a Prince of Prussia." "You're ruining your health." "Think of the duties of your rank and position." "His Royal Highness himself will look after the education of the Demoiselle." "Promise me, my dear nephew, not to go to Berlin without my consent." "I wonder what business the servant had with that Enke woman." "What's that to you?" "Don't meddle with politics!" "Demoiselle Wilhelmine is to receive a sound education." "French, literature, music." "And dancing!" "Please!" "I've admonished the Prince of Prussia." "He's promised to mend his ways." "Your Majesty, you'd better marry him off." "You're the eternal matchmaker, my dear brother." "But this time you're right." "Some priest has written a treatise on the likeness of kings with God." "That would be really tough on God, if I ressembled him." "Go on, say it, I'm a bit of a pig." "Indeed, Your Majesty, you often drop snuff tobacco onto your coat." "That's what I meant, a bit of a pig." "When my good mother was still alive, I used to be cleaner, or less unclean." "In autumn the King was in the company of gay youth again, his nephews and nieces." "Here the Crown Prince met the woman the reason of the state has destined for him.." "Princess Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel." "Today I feel like a benevolent uncle." "Next year the Crown Prince married Princess Elisabeth at the palace of Berlin." "The Demoiselle is so distracted today." "Now the rosy days are over for the Enke family." "The same month Friedrich founded the Bank for Giro and Discount of Berlin." "And its rival ..." "My dear Splittgerber, the new National Bank will exist as long as the State exists." "No!" "It's a still-born child." "The King understands nothing of banking." "The banker almost seemed to be right." "A year has passed and the National Bank already was in trouble." "Your Majesty, the people are afraid to take paper in exchange for their good money." "The don't trust the bank." "Then we'll force them to have trust." "The King has decreed that all custody funds and similar investments are to be deposited at the National Bank." "What do you say now?" "The King seems to understand more about banking than we thought." "Ruthlessly Friedrich tried any means to repair the State's desolate finances." "He appointed Count Launay... who was to introduce the excise tax after the French model." "I want every luxury item to be heavily taxed." "My Royal brother is burying himself in work." "I see him so rarely nowadays." "And I never see him at all." "Your Majesty, I'll make many enemies if I proceed so ruthlessly." "I give you every authority." "When one has decided on a necessary course, one must enforce it... even against public opinion!" "By 1768 the new tax system was introduced in the whole country." "What's the meaning of this?" "Does he want to rob us?" "It's because of those new taxes." "The King made them." "Now tell that King of yours he can lick up his beer all by himself." "They even begrude us pepper and salt!" "And sugar too!" "His Majesty is obsessed with that unfortunate tax scheme." "Couldn't His Royal Highness exert some influence ..." "Influence?" "I've long ago given up meddling in affairs which my Royal brother intends to decide alone." "The whole world is grumbling about the King of Prussia again." "Only my pets are always content." "They don't have to bother about politics." "Politics ruin the character, Your Majesty." "At the royal palace of Potsdam... the young Crown Princess was leading a lonely life." "Your Royal Highness is looking very lovely tonight." "What a pity that your august husband is prevented so often by his duty to admire you, dressed like this." "I give my princely word of honour." "I'll never leave you." "Friedrich Wilhelm" "Even if I tried not to notice, my ladies see to it that I learn about your shameless affairs." "You're making me the laughing stock of the entire court." "Don't imagine that I'll continue this marriage just to give you an heir to the throne." "I'll pay you back in the same coin." "Mother, I can no longer serve in the army." "That damned gout!" "What's to become of us?" "Go to the King." "He'll understand." "He has the gout himself." "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia refuses to perform her conjugal duties." "She refuses?" "By the devil, she's got to provide an heir to the throne!" "I'll send her a Lieutenant of the Guards." "You go to her and tell her this!" "The fool is capable of really telling her." "His Majesty requests that Your Royal Highness grants her favours to a lieutenant." "Sir!" "If you dare continue this conversation I'll order you to provide for an heir to the throne yourself." "Mister King, my mother says since you have the gout too, you will help father." "But my father is Corporal Lempel of the Ramin Regiment." "Is that so?" "Then tell him that he won't be forgotten." "Father, the King sends his greetings." "Dear Wilhelmine!" "I've gotten into a lot of trouble." "It's better we don't meet for the time being ..." "Dear Wilhelmine!" "I've gotten into a lot of trouble." "It's better we don't meet [for the time being] ever again." "You're to leave town at once by order of the King." "All that's necessary will be arranged." "You've turned as hard as your father." "He's right." "I can't rid myself of my father." "At evening a coach left Potsdam." "I've made preparations in Berlin." "You proceed from there to Paris till the storm has calmed down." "Then I'll fetch you back." "Like every year, the King moves to the Royal palace at Potsdam in autumn." "D'Argens, you're not handing in your resignation all of a sudden?" "Your Majesty, my advanced age makes me want to see my homeland again." "Haven't you found a homeland with me?" "During the 25 years of our friendship?" "I don't want to enter the service of another prince." "I just want to die in France." "Do as you please, Marquis." "I'm used to ingratitude." "Ingratitude?" "If his unfitness for military service has been established, Corporal Lemke of the Ramin Regiment is to take up the vacant post of schoolmaster in the village of Bornstedt." "Friedrich" "You're going to teach!" "What do you know about it?" "Before moving to Potsdam I wanted to make sure that you're looked after properly, my dear neighbour." "Keith, you're my only friend." "Everybody who used to be close to me, has died or abandoned me, and today d'Argens has left me." "On 24 January 1769 the King's birthday is celebrated in Berlin with a masked ball." "They've left the ballroom." "Follow them!" "Your Royal Highness, you're risking a lot." "I don't care." "No scandal!" "See Madame home." "You're confined to your room until further orders." "It's understood." "No scandal!" "Such an intolerable marriage ought to be divorced." "On 21 April 1769, behind closed doors, the Crown Prince's marriage was dissolved." "The court hearings have never been made public." "The judges were sworn to secrecy." "Three months later, in Paris, Wilhelmine Enke learns of a surprising piece of news." "Last Tuesday at the palace of Charlottenburg the Crown Prince married Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt." "Pack my things!" "We're leaving." "Friederike Louise, the new Crown Princess." "... may inform Your Royal Highness that I'm on my way to Potsdam and long for the moment when I finally see you again." "I am devoted to you till I die, Wilhelmine Enke" "Corporal Lempel's new field of activity." "Say, doesn't he respect his King anymore?" "I beg Your Majesty's pardon, if those brats had found out that there exists someone with higher authority, I wouldn't be able to keep them in check." "Madame, I am sorry but I must leave you, the call of duty ..." "I'll ask His Majesty to dispense you from duty the next time." "Don't do this." "Duty means duty." "Why hasn't Russia signed the renewal of the alliance treaty yet?" "It seems the Empress Catherine wants to keep us in suspense." "Then we'll force her to sign, my dear Finkenstein!" "Drop a hint at the court of Vienna that I'm not averse to friendly terms with the Austrians." "That's General Werner's new Russian leather boots." "Say, Werner, you have an awful smell." "No!" "His Majesty has a smell." "I stink." "In August 1769 the King made the Empress Catherine sign the renewal of the treaty." "Your Majesty, the King of Prussia has offered Austria a reconciliation." "He and Joseph II met on the river Neisse." "If Prussia reconciles with Austria we'll lose a valuable ally." "Your Majesty, you must sign now." "Friedrich doesn't let himself be dissuaded from his new politics." "Next year, the King returns the visit and meets the Emperor Joseph II in Mährisch-Neustadt." "If the god Mars were to pick a personal guard, I'd advise him to take the Imperial Grenadiers." "In autumn the last great flute concert was held at Sanssouci... in honour of the Princess Palatine Marie Antonia of Saxony." "He's grown quite old lately." "In the evening, after the guests have left Sanssouci ..." "Mon testament" "I have tried with the force given to my by nature, and with my feeble intellect, to turn the state I had the honour to rule into a happy and blossoming country, where law and justice reigns." "The uncertainty surrounding the destiny of man also determines the firstborn." "And that's why a king isn't worth more than other men." "I recommend to all my relatives to live in harmony with each other and not to forget, in case of emergency, to sacrifice their personal interest to the welfare of the fatherland and the state." "My last wish, when I'm about to utter my final breath, will be for the happiness of my kingdom." "May it forever be ruled by justice, wisdom and efficiency, by its mild laws, may it be the happiest, by its finances, the best administered, by its army, only striving for honour and noble glory, may it be the state defended most bravely, may it continue to blossom and prosper till the end of time." "End of part one subtitles: serdar202@KG"