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The Kaiser's Lackey (1951)

ALL 08/31/1951 (de) Drama, History, Comedy 109 Min
  • Release
    08/31/1951
  • Production
    DEFA
  • Rotten tomato
    65%
  • Original title
    Der Untertan
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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...

  1. Wolfgang Staudte

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Producer



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  1. Werner Peters

    Diederich Heßling

  2. Paul Esser

    Regierungspräsident von Wulckow

  3. Blandine Ebinger

    Frau von Wulckow

  4. Renate Fischer

    Guste Daimchen

  5. Carola Braunbock

    Emmi Heßling

  6. Emmy Burg

    Magda Heßling

  7. Sabine Thalbach

    Agnes Göppel

  8. Friedel Nowack

    Mrs. Göpel

  9. Friedrich Maurer

    Göpel

  10. Erich Nadler

    Father Heßling

  11. Gertrud Bergmann

    Mother Heßling

  12. Ernst Legal

    Zillich

  13. Raimund Schelcher

    Dr. Wolfgang Buck

  14. Eduard von Winterstein

    Buck sen.

  15. Hannsgeorg Laubenthal

    Mahlmann

  16. Friedrich Gnaß

    Napoleon Fischer

  17. Wolfgang Kühne

    Dr. Mennicke

  18. Fritz Staudte

    Kühlemann

  19. Wolfgang Heise

    von Brietzen

  20. Axel Triebel

    Major Kunze

  21. Arthur Schröder

    Landgerichtsdirektor

  22. Paul Mederow

    Dr. Heuteufel

  23. Friedrich Richter

    Lauer

  24. Heinz Keuneke

    Gottlieb Hornung

  25. Ernst Wehlau

    Sötbier

  26. Antje Ruge

    Virgin of Orleans

  27. Kurt-Otto Fritsch

    Young Worker

  28. Viola Recklies

    Young Worker

  29. Oskar Höcker

    Fritzsche

  30. Georg August Koch

    Medizinalrat

  31. Martin Rickelt

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Casts : 31 , Crews : 7

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The Kaiser's Lackey (1951) 109 Min

ALL 08/31/1951 (de)
Drama, History, Comedy
  • Release 08/31/1951
  • Production
    DEFA
  • Original title Der Untertan
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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...

  1. Wolfgang Staudte

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Johanna Rosinski

    Editor

  4. Producer



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