The Blue Swords

Original title: Die blauen Schwerter

1949
1h 39m

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Alexander Engel, Herbert Hübner, Willy A. Kleinau, Marianne Prenzel, Hans Quest, Wolfgang Schleif, Ilse Steppat, Paul Wagner, and Wolfgang Kühne in The Blue Swords (1949)

A biography of Johann Friedrich Böttger, who in 1709 invented the first white porcelain in Europe. The apprentice apothecary and assistant to a "gold producer" fled from the Prussian King - ... Read allA biography of Johann Friedrich Böttger, who in 1709 invented the first white porcelain in Europe. The apprentice apothecary and assistant to a "gold producer" fled from the Prussian King - into Saxony. But there he finds King Frederick August the Strong after him: the young man ... Read allA biography of Johann Friedrich Böttger, who in 1709 invented the first white porcelain in Europe. The apprentice apothecary and assistant to a "gold producer" fled from the Prussian King - into Saxony. But there he finds King Frederick August the Strong after him: the young man is told to produce gold for the king, and is thus brought to a fortress and equipped with ... Read all

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Trivia
The movie's title "The blue swards" refer to the logo of the Meißen porcelain, which shows two blue swards being crossed. Those are also shown in the intro.

Goofs
Unlike in the movie where Böttger first met King August the Strong in 1701, the first meeting of the two was in January 1704 after pure conversation via mail first.

Quotes
König Friedrich I.: Why don't you make the gold not yourself, that you need for freeing the Christians?
Laskari: Not everyone is worthy for a pact with the devil, your majesty.