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 - 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 everything he would need for the task. Naturally, Böttger has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain; it should be as white as it is in China, he figures. Once he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," he vainly hopes for freedom... a tragic error.
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Wolfgang Schleif
Director
Hans Quest
Johann Böttger
Ilse Steppat
Frau von Tschirnhausen
Alexander Engel
Herr von Tschirnhausen
Albert Bessler
Finanzminister
Willy A. Kleinau
August der Starke
Rolf Weih
Leutnant Menzel
Siegfried Dornbusch
Köhler
Herbert Hübner
Nehmitz
Marianne Prenzel
Katharina
Paul Wagner
König Friedrich I.
Werner Pledath
Kreisamtmann von Wittenberg
Klaus Miedel
Laskari
Hans Emons
Wildenstein
Hans Fiebrandt
Gehilfe von Dünnbrot
Hannes Fischer
Student in Wittenberg
Alfred Böttcher
Writer
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