In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters
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Theodor Loos as Friedrich Schiller
Hermann Vallentin as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Isabel Heermann as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Max Pategg as Johann Kaspar Schiller, Werbeoffizier
Ilka Grüning as Elisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau
Robert Leffler as Pastor Christoph Moser
Berta Monnard as
Rudolf Klein-Rhoden as
Hans Carl Mueller as
Erich Walter as
Kitty Aschenbach as
Paul Bildt as
Carl Jönsson as
Max Kaufmann as
Philipp Manning as
Ernst Legal as
Gottfried Kraus as
Wilhelm Diegelmann as
Josefine Dora as
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