📜 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...
🌏 Languages Available:
German
📆 Date Released:
1951-08-31
⌚ Running Time:
109 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.5
Beloved Cast
Diederich Heßling
Werner Peters
Regierungspräsident von Wulckow
Paul Esser
Frau von Wulckow
Blandine Ebinger
Guste Daimchen
Renate Fischer
Emmi Heßling
Carola Braunbock
Magda Heßling
Emmy Burg
Agnes Göppel
Sabine Thalbach
Mrs. Göpel
Friedel Nowack
Göpel
Friedrich Maurer
Father Heßling
Erich Nadler
Mother Heßling
Gertrud Bergmann
Zillich
Ernst Legal
Dr. Wolfgang Buck
Raimund Schelcher
Buck sen.
Eduard von Winterstein
Mahlmann
Hannsgeorg Laubenthal
Napoleon Fischer
Friedrich Gnaß
Dr. Mennicke
Wolfgang Kühne
Kühlemann
Fritz Staudte
von Brietzen
Wolfgang Heise
Major Kunze
Axel Triebel
Landgerichtsdirektor
Arthur Schröder
Dr. Heuteufel
Paul Mederow
Lauer
Friedrich Richter
Gottlieb Hornung
Heinz Keuneke
Sötbier
Ernst Wehlau
Virgin of Orleans
Antje Ruge
Young Worker
Kurt-Otto Fritsch
Young Worker
Viola Recklies
Fritzsche
Oskar Höcker
Medizinalrat
Georg August Koch
Martin Rickelt
