Storyline
In Russia shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, Princess Vorontsov (Ellen Richter) is in love with a high-ranking officer of the tsarist army. When he is murdered, she craves revenge. The leading suspect is a lawyer with ties to nihilist revolutionaries. On behalf of the secret police, she travels to Switzerland in order to gain his trust and facilitate his arrest. Too late she realizes that she has been toyed with all along. Her fiancé was not the man she thought she was.
Cast & Crew
Ellen Richter
Die Fürstin Woronzoff/Olga Petrova
Lead
Rudolf Forster
Sassulitsch, Polizeiagent
Artúr Somlay
Dr. Nemirowski, Advokat
HF
Hugo Flink
Dimitrij
AE
Alexander Ekert
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Emil Rameau
Baron Solowjew
Toni Tetzlaff
Gräfin Gortschakow
HS
Henny Steinmann
Gräfin Derekew
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Adolf Gärtner's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. Die Fürstin Woronzoff is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
