This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.
- Created by
- Carl Froelich
- Origin
- DE
- TMDB rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 6 votes
Cast
Emil JanningsProf. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
Hilde WeissnerJadwiga, seine Frau
Hans BrausewetterRechtsanwalt Falk
Hilde von StolzLydia Link
Harald PaulsenNiemeyers Sohn
Hans RichterPrimaner Franz Graf von Mettke- Hildegard BarkoOlga, Dienstmädchen bei Niemeyer
- Paul W. KrügerPedell Schimke
Hannes StelzerKurt von Zedtlitz, Gymnasiast- Hans Joachim SchaufußHans Klausing, Gymnasiast
