The Treasures of Saxony: How August III Built His Collection(2021)

🎬52 min
📅2021-11-13
🎭Documentary, History, TV Movie
5.3/10

Overview

Year 1763, the Seven Years' War is about to end. August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, has died, leaving empty the royal treasury and an extraordinary collection of paintings, sculptures, jewelry and goldsmith masterpieces, which he considered a symbol of his greatness, and that of Dresden, one of the European capitals of Baroque art.

Production

TELLUX-Film, MDR, ARTE

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Cast

Peter Weiß
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Virginie Spenlé
as Self - Art Historian
Dirk Syndram
as Self - Art Historian
Alexander Röstel
as Self - Museum Curator
Massimo Baucia
as Self - Librarian
Sebastian Herrmann
as Carl Heinrich von Heineken (uncredited)
Robert Herrmanns
as Von Heineken's Secretary (uncredited)
Artourette
as Von Heineken's Painter (uncredited)
Roland Heinze
as Giovanni Bianconi (uncredited)
Sidney Passkönig
as Potential Buyer (uncredited)