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The Kaiser's Lackey

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6.5/10 • 23

1951-08-311h 49m

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Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...

Directors
Wolfgang Staudte
Editors
Johanna Rosinski

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  1. Werner Peters

    Werner Peters

    Diederich Heßling

  2. Paul Esser

    Paul Esser

    Regierungspräsident von Wulckow

  3. Blandine Ebinger

    Blandine Ebinger

    Frau von Wulckow

  4. Renate Fischer

    Renate Fischer

    Guste Daimchen

  5. Carola Braunbock

    Carola Braunbock

    Emmi Heßling

  6. Emmy Burg

    Emmy Burg

    Magda Heßling

  7. Sabine Thalbach

    Sabine Thalbach

    Agnes Göppel

  8. Friedel Nowack

    Friedel Nowack

    Mrs. Göpel

  9. Friedrich Maurer

    Friedrich Maurer

    Göpel

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Original Language
German
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