The Kaiser's Lackey

The Kaiser's Lackey by Wolfgang Staudte

6.50

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...

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Cast

Werner Peters

Werner Peters as Diederich Heßling

Paul Esser

Paul Esser as Regierungspräsident von Wulckow

Blandine Ebinger

Blandine Ebinger as Frau von Wulckow

Renate Fischer

Renate Fischer as Guste Daimchen

Carola Braunbock

Carola Braunbock as Emmi Heßling

Emmy Burg

Emmy Burg as Magda Heßling

Sabine Thalbach

Sabine Thalbach as Agnes Göppel

Friedel Nowack

Friedel Nowack as Mrs. Göpel

Friedrich Maurer

Friedrich Maurer as Göpel

Erich Nadler

Erich Nadler as Father Heßling

Gertrud Bergmann

Gertrud Bergmann as Mother Heßling

Ernst Legal

Ernst Legal as Zillich

Raimund Schelcher

Raimund Schelcher as Dr. Wolfgang Buck

Eduard von Winterstein

Eduard von Winterstein as Buck sen.

Hannsgeorg Laubenthal

Hannsgeorg Laubenthal as Mahlmann

Friedrich Gnaß

Friedrich Gnaß as Napoleon Fischer

Wolfgang Kühne

Wolfgang Kühne as Dr. Mennicke

Fritz Staudte

Fritz Staudte as Kühlemann

Wolfgang Heise

Wolfgang Heise as von Brietzen

Axel Triebel

Axel Triebel as Major Kunze

Arthur Schröder

Arthur Schröder as Landgerichtsdirektor

Paul Mederow

Paul Mederow as Dr. Heuteufel

Friedrich Richter

Friedrich Richter as Lauer

Heinz Keuneke

Heinz Keuneke as Gottlieb Hornung

Ernst Wehlau

Ernst Wehlau as Sötbier

Antje Ruge

Antje Ruge as Virgin of Orleans

Kurt-Otto Fritsch

Kurt-Otto Fritsch as Young Worker

Viola Recklies

Viola Recklies as Young Worker

Oskar Höcker

Oskar Höcker as Fritzsche

Georg August Koch

Georg August Koch as Medizinalrat

Martin Rickelt

Martin Rickelt as

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