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The Magnate is a film of genre Drama directed by Filip Bajon with Jerzy Bińczycki

The Magnate (1987)

The Magnate
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Length 2h51
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Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating68% 3.40133.40133.40133.40133.4013

Magnat is a 1987 Polish historical drama film directed by Filip Bajon.

The film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935. In 1900 Prince Hans Heinrich XV von Teuss entertains Emperor Wilhelm II with a bison hunt at his palatial residence. He finds out many years later that his wife was emperor's secret mistress and divorces her soon after. In the '20s, during the Silesian uprisings against the German Empire, Prince's son Conrad turns out to be involved in a homosexual relationship and is unable to produce an heir to the family fortune. In 1932, the Prince, now married to young adventuress Marisca, becomes paralysed and confined to a wheelchair. His diabolical elder son takes over the ruined estate and unknown to his father becomes associated with Hitler's supporters and the Nazi party.

In 2004 Magnat was included in the list of 100 Best Polish Films of all time.

Synopsis

In the year 1900 the German Emperor, Wilhelm II, was invited for a bison hunt in the hunting lodge and estate of a wealthy industrialist and businessman Prince Hans Heinrich XV (of the von Teuss family) in German-controlled Silesia. The emperor, satisfied with the diplomatic services of the Prince for the country and charmed by his young wife Daisy, offers him a profitable position. The Prince is obliged to choose: either become the Great Huntsman of the Crown and receive additional land for building new factories, coal mines and manufacturing plants or become an Ambassador of the German Empire in London. Although under the constant pressure of his wife to choose the position of an ambassador, Hans Heinrich decides to choose the position of the Great Huntsman of the Empire. Later distressed Princess Daisy turns to the Emperor for help in order to escape from her tyrannical, cynical and obsessed husband. Upon the Kaiser's refusal she becomes involved in a scandalous affair that would later have devastating consequences on the von Teuss family and her marriage. The Prince eventually divorced Daisy in the 1920s.

Actors

Jerzy Bińczycki
Bogusław Linda

(Bolko von Teuss)Jan Nowicki

(Prince Hans Heinrich XV von Teuss)Grażyna Szapołowska

(Marisca von Teuss)Jan Englert

(Conrad von Teuss)Olgierd Łukaszewicz

(Franzel von Teuss)
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