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
Friedrich Struensee
Odile Versois
Queen Mathilde
Horst Buchholz
King Christian
Fritz Tillmann
Count Rantzau
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Queen Juliane
Siegfried Lowitz
Kammerherr Guldberg