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The Blue Swords

The Blue Swords - Where to Watch

Planning a movie night with 'The Blue Swords' at home? Figuring out where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch the Wolfgang Schleif-helmed movie can be harder than it should be so we at Moviefone are here to so our team will take the guesswork out of it.

Here are a few more things worth knowing about the DEFA drama flick. The Blue Swords starring Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat, Herbert Hübner, Albert Bessler has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 39 min.

Wondering what this story is all about? Here's the plot: "The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equipped with everything he would need for the task, but he has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain—white porcelain, as the Chinese are said to possess. In 1709, he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," the first white porcelain made in Europe, he hopes for freedom."

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