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1951
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Ganz geniale Verfilmung von Manns Roman mit einem hervorragenden Hauptdarsteller. Aber alle Rollen sind sehr gut besetzt. Ein Sittengemälde das zum Pflichtprogramm in Schulen gehören sollte. Ich weiß gar nicht wie oft ich ihn schon gesehen habe. Das ist ein Klassiker der zu allen Zeiten aktuell sein wird.

@lucky123ramses9 41

Wir haben es in den 70ern in der Schule durchgenommen, interpretiert und einen AUFSATZ geschrieben, wie wir aus heutiger (damaliger) Sicht handeln würden.

@valescawagner5074 15

Weltmacht Toilettenpapier - bekommt heut ne ganz neue Bedeutung :-). Der geniale Heinrich Mann hatte es 1918 schon vorausgesehen.

@sundayfloater2926 18

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The Kaiser's Lackey
The Kaiser's Lackey

1951 · 1h 49m · Released

ComedyDramaHistory

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...

Director

Wolfgang Staudte

Cast

Werner Peters

Werner Peters

Diederich Heßling

Paul Esser

Paul Esser

Regierungspräsident von Wulckow

Blandine Ebinger

Blandine Ebinger

Frau von Wulckow

Renate Fischer

Renate Fischer

Guste Daimchen

Carola Braunbock

Carola Braunbock

Emmi Heßling

E

Emmy Burg

Magda Heßling

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