The Kaiser's Lackey (1951)
Der Untertan
109 min
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...
- Data de estreia
- 31 de agosto de 1951
- País de origem
- Alemanha, Alemanha
- Música
- Horst Hans Sieber
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Trailer
Elenco
- Werner Peters como Diederich Heßling
- Paul Esser como Regierungspräsident von Wulckow
- Blandine Ebinger como Frau von Wulckow
- Renate Fischer como Guste Daimchen
- Carola Braunbock como Emmi Heßling
- Emmy Burg como Magda Heßling
- Sabine Thalbach como Agnes Göpel
- Friedel Nowack como Mrs. Göpel
- Friedrich Maurer como Fabrikant Göpel
- Ernst Legal como Pastor Zillich
- Raimund Schelcher como Dr. Wolfgang Buck
- Eduard von Winterstein como Buck sen.
- Hannsgeorg Laubenthal como Mahlmann
- Friedrich Gnaß como Napoleon Fischer
- Fritz Staudte como Kühlemann
- Axel Triebel como Major Kunze
- Arthur Schröder como Landgerichtsdirektor
- Paul Mederow como Dr. Heuteufel
- Friedrich Richter como Lauer
- Oskar Höcker como Fritzsche
- Georg August Koch como Medizinalrat
Equipe
- Wolfgang Staudte · Diretor(a)
- Heinrich Mann · Roteirista
- Fritz Staudte · Roteirista
- Wolfgang Staudte · Roteirista
- Horst Hans Sieber · Compositor(a)
- Robert Baberske · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Johanna Rosinski · Editor(a)
- Karl Schneider · Diretor(a) de arte
- Erich Zander · Diretor(a) de arte