(2 Jul 2025)
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Potsdam, Germany – 17 June 2025
1. Wide of Palace Sans Souci with tourists walking on the stairs
2. Close writing on the palace (French) “Without worries”
3. Wide of Palace Sans Souci with flowers in the foreground
4. Mid of statue in the Sans Souci garden with tourists walking on the stairs
5. Wide of grave of Frederick the Great with potatoes on it and the Palace Sans Souci in the background
6. Mid of Grave of Frederick the Great with potatoes on it
7. Mid of souvenirs at the museum shop with an apron with a potato print on it and the word (German) “potato king” written on it
8. Close of apron
9. Close of different postcards addressing the myth of Frederick the Great and the potatoes
10. Close of picture of Frederick the Great with cook books in the background reading (German) “recipes with potatoes”
11. Close of several books about Frederick the Great
12. Wide historian Jürgen Luh approaching the grave of Frederick the Great
13. Pan down from Luh to the grave
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jürgen Luh, Historian of the Prussian Palaces and Garden Foundation:
“One of the parts of the myth is like that Frederick had a potato field and the peasants hesitated and ignored that and didn’t want to eat the potatoes because they thought this is a useless crop and so the myth is that Frederick put around some of his soldiers just to guard the potato field and after that the people have thought, ‘Wow, this must be something very, very important and very, very good to eat. So let’s have it.’”
15. Close of potatoes on the grave
16. Wide of tourists looking at the grave
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jürgen Luh, Historian of the Prussian Palaces and Garden Foundation:
“And this is completely nonsense because nobody in that time was so stupid to fall on this trick.”
18. Close of magnets with pictures of Frederick the Great
19. Close of postcard with Frederick the Great on a horse holding a fork with a potato spiked on it
20. Mid of postcard with Frederick the Great on a horse holding a fork with a potato
21. Close of postcard
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Jürgen Luh, Historian of the Prussian Palaces and Garden Foundation:
"The legend has beaten the truth, and the legend is just too beautiful. People love this, and people love to come here and put potatoes on the grave of the King and, of course, there’s more money to make with a legend than with a truth!”
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Steinreich, Brandenburg – 6 June 2025
23. Pan over a potato field in Steinreich, Brandenburg
24. Close of potato plant
25. Wide of farmer Dr. Axel Böhme walking on a field
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Axel Böhme, farmer at the Biohof Schöneiche:
“In most parts of the world, potatoes are considered a vegetable. In Germany, it’s a staple food. So it really is one of the, especially in some parts of Germany, in eastern Germany more than in other parts, people cannot imagine to have a meal without potatoes.”
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Potsdam, Germany – 17 June 2025
27. Close of cook book saying (German) “The best recipes from Brandenburg”
28. Close of cook book saying (German) “Recipes with potatoes”
29. Close of cook book saying (German) "With the cooking spoon through German history”
30. Tilt up of cook book
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Berlin, Germany – 16 June 2025
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Anke Schönfelder, project manager for German potato marketing company Kartoffel-Marketing GmbH:
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Berlin, Germany – 5 June 2025
32. Close of statue of Frederick the Great on a horse
STORYLINE:
Except it’s all fake. Bogus. Phony. Falsch! as the Germans would say.
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