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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Saraband for Dead Lovers (released in the United States as Saraband) is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood. It is based on the novel by Helen Simpson. Set in seventeenth-century Hanover, it depicts the doomed romance between Philip Christoph von Königsmarck and Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the wife of the Elector of Hanover. The saraband mentioned in the title is a type of Spanish dance.
Jim Morahan, William Kellner and Michael Relph
the third-most popular British star, and the sixth-most popular overall.
Career Rank Organisation 1947–49.
Granger went over to Rank, for whom he made a series of historical dramas: "Captain Boycott" (1947), set in Ireland, directed by Frank Launder; "Blanche Fury" (1948), with Valerie Hobson; and "Saraband for Dead Lovers" (1948), an Ealing Studios production. Granger was cast as the outsider, the handsome gambler Philip Christoph von Königsmarck who is perceived