The Kaiser's Lackey (1951)
1h 49m
Running Time
August 31, 1951Release Date
The Kaiser's Lackey (1951)
1h 49m
Running Time
August 31, 1951Release Date
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Plot.
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..
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Cast & Crew.
Werner Peters
Diederich Heßling
Paul Esser
Regierungspräsident von Wulckow
Blandine Ebinger
Frau von Wulckow
Renate Fischer
Guste Daimchen
Carola Braunbock
Emmi Heßling
Emmy Burg
Magda Heßling
Sabine Thalbach
Agnes Göppel
Friedel Nowack
Mrs. Göpel
Friedrich Maurer
Göpel
Erich Nadler
Father Heßling
Gertrud Bergmann
Mother Heßling
Ernst Legal
Zillich
Raimund Schelcher
Dr. Wolfgang Buck
Eduard von Winterstein
Buck sen.
Hannsgeorg Laubenthal
Mahlmann
Friedrich Gnaß
Napoleon Fischer
Wolfgang Kühne
Dr. Mennicke
Fritz Staudte
Kühlemann / Screenplay
Wolfgang Heise
von Brietzen
Karl Schneider
ProductionDesigner
Axel Triebel
Major Kunze
Erich Zander
ProductionDesigner
Arthur Schröder
Landgerichtsdirektor
Paul Mederow
Dr. Heuteufel
Media.
Details.
Release DateAugust 31, 1951
Original NameDer Untertan
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 49m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Kaiser's Lackey (German: der Untertan; also known in English as Man of Straw and The Loyal Subject) is a 1951 East German film directed by Wolfgang Staudte, based on Heinrich Mann's 1918 satirical novel by the same name.
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