
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.
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Emil Jannings as Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus

Hilde Weissner as Jadwiga, seine Frau

Hans Brausewetter as Rechtsanwalt Falk

Hilde von Stolz as Lydia Link

Harald Paulsen as Niemeyers Sohn

Hans Richter as Primaner Franz Graf von Mettke

Hildegard Barko as Olga, Dienstmädchen bei Niemeyer

Paul W. Krüger as Pedell Schimke

Hannes Stelzer as Kurt von Zedtlitz, Gymnasiast

Hans Joachim Schaufuß as Hans Klausing, Gymnasiast

Rolf Müller as Emmerich Frommelt, Gymnasiast

Alexander Kraft-Hohenlohe as Erwin Putzke

Herbert Hübner as Landrat von Kannewurf

Ernst Waldow as Assessor Mollwein

Otto Stoeckel as Polizeiinspektor Hoppe

Bruno Fritz as Obersekretär Tamaschke

Hugo Froelich as Schutzmann Patzkowski

Gaston Briese as Schutzmann Bellert

Max Rosen as Schutzmann Krebs

Walter Steinbeck as Major Kleinstüber

Walter Werner as Sanitätsrat Brunner

Karl Etlinger as Fabrikant Meier

Harry Frank as Oberlehrer Schwenk

Ernst Legal as Schladebach, Bäckermeister

Else Ehser as Frl. Wetterhahn - Schneiderin

Rolf Moebius as Bit part

Achim Schmidt as Bit part

Werner Vogt as Mann

Peer Baedecker as Mann

Peter Jäger as Mann

Hermann Braun as Mann

Eberhard Schott as Mann

Walter Bienenstein as Mann

Rudolf Klicks as Mann
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