The Kaiser's Lackey (1951)
3.8 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 49min
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- Synopsis:
Diederich Heßling (Werner Peters) 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 (Paul Esser) 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 (Renate Fischer), 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... - Actors:
- Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer, Ernst Legal, Raimund Schelcher, Eduard von Winterstein, Friedrich Maurer, Sabine Thalbach, Hannsgeorg Laubenthal, Friedrich Gnaß, Wolfgang Kühne, Fritz Staudte, Wolfgang Heise, Axel Triebel, Arthur Schröder, Paul Mederow, Friedrich Richter, Heinz Keuneke, Richard Landeck, Ernst Wehlau
- Directors:
- Wolfgang Staudte
- Writers:
- Heinrich Mann, Fritz Staudte, Wolfgang Staudte
- Aka:
- The Subject / Man of Straw / The Underdog / Der Untertan
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama
- Countries:
- Germany
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