Der Untertan
Movie - 109mins
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...
Cast:
Kurt-Otto
Fritsch
Viola
Recklies
Oskar
Höcker
Georg
August
Martin
Rickelt
Werner
Peters
Paul
Esser
Blandine
Ebinger
Renate
Fischer
Carola
Braunbock
Emmy
Burg
Sabine
Thalbach
Friedel
Nowack
Friedrich
Maurer
Erich
Nadler
Gertrud
Bergmann
Ernst
Legal
Raimund
Schelcher
Eduard
von
Hannsgeorg
Laubenthal
Friedrich
Gnaß
Wolfgang
Kühne
Fritz
Staudte
Wolfgang
Heise
Axel
Triebel
Arthur
Schröder
Paul
Mederow
Friedrich
Richter
Heinz
Keuneke
Ernst
Wehlau
Antje
Ruge
Kurt-Otto
Fritsch
Viola
Recklies
Oskar
Höcker
Georg
August
Martin
Rickelt
Werner
Peters
Paul
Esser
Blandine
Ebinger
Renate
Fischer
Carola
Braunbock