About
This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.
Cast
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Emil Jannings
Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
H
Hilde Weissner
Jadwiga, seine Frau
H
Hans Brausewetter
Rechtsanwalt Falk
H
Hilde von Stolz
Lydia Link
H
Harald Paulsen
Niemeyers Sohn
H
Hans Richter
Primaner Franz Graf von Mettke
H
Hannes Stelzer
Kurt von Zedtlitz, Gymnasiast
H
Hans Joachim Schaufuß
Hans Klausing, Gymnasiast
R
Rolf Müller
Emmerich Frommelt, Gymnasiast
H
Herbert Hübner
Landrat von Kannewurf
E
Ernst Waldow
Assessor Mollwein
O
Otto Stoeckel
Polizeiinspektor Hoppe
B
Bruno Fritz
Obersekretär Tamaschke
H
Hugo Froelich
Schutzmann Patzkowski
G
Gaston Briese
Schutzmann Bellert
W
Walter Steinbeck
Major Kleinstüber
W
Walter Werner
Sanitätsrat Brunner
K
Karl Etlinger
Fabrikant Meier
H
Harry Frank
Oberlehrer Schwenk
E
Ernst Legal
Schladebach, Bäckermeister
