"The film portrays the interaction of Johann Friedrich Struensee, a doctor treating the mentally ill Christian VII of Denmark, and his English consort Caroline Matilda."
O.W. Fischer
as Friedrich Struensee
Odile Versois
as Queen Mathilde
Horst Buchholz
as King Christian
Fritz Tillmann
as Count Rantzau
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
as Queen Juliane
Siegfried Lowitz
as Kammerherr Guldberg
Ingeborg Schöner
as Gertrud von Eyben
Helmuth Lohner
as Kammerherr Graf Holck
Günther Hadank
as
Wilfried Jan Heyn
Gerhard Ritter
Peter Esser
Heini Göbel
Georg Lehn
Georg Richter
Producer
Göran Strindberg
Director of Photography
Odo Krohmann
Writer
Harald Braun
Werner Eisbrenner
Music
Hilwa von Boro
Editor
Gerhard Menzel
Robert Neumann
Novel
Director