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Saraband for Dead Lovers is a British film of genre Drama directed by Basil Dearden released in USA on 11 june 1949 with Stewart Granger

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

Saraband for Dead Lovers
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Released in USA 11 june 1949
Length 1h36
Directed by
Genres Drama,    War,    Biography,    Historical,    Romance
Rating64% 3.2416653.2416653.2416653.2416653.241665

Saraband for Dead Lovers (released in the United States. as Saraband) is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood. It is based on the novel by Helen Simpson. Set in seventeenth century Hanover, it depicts the doomed romance between Philip Christoph von Königsmarck and Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the wife of the Elector of Hanover.

Jim Morahan, William Kellner and Michael Relph were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color.

Synopsis

Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) seeks solace from dashing Count Philip Konigsmark (Stewart Granger) when her husband Prince George Louis (Peter Bull), later to become King George I of Great Britain, wants nothing to do with her. The lovers are brought down by a jealous Countess Platen (Flora Robson).

Actors

Stewart Granger

(Count Philip Konigsmark)Joan Greenwood

(Sophie Dorothea)Peter C. Bull

(Prince George Louis)Flora Robson

(Countess Clara Platen)Françoise Rosay

(The Electress Sophia)
And :
Frederick Valk
Anthony Quayle
Michael Gough
Megs Jenkins
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