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...
Genres:
Werner Peters as Diederich Heßling
Paul Esser as Regierungspräsident von Wulckow
Blandine Ebinger as Frau von Wulckow
Renate Fischer as Guste Daimchen
Carola Braunbock as Emmi Heßling
Emmy Burg as Magda Heßling
Sabine Thalbach as Agnes Göppel
Friedel Nowack as Mrs. Göpel
Friedrich Maurer as Göpel
Erich Nadler as Father Heßling
Gertrud Bergmann as Mother Heßling
Ernst Legal as Zillich
Raimund Schelcher as Dr. Wolfgang Buck
Eduard von Winterstein as Buck sen.
Hannsgeorg Laubenthal as Mahlmann
Friedrich Gnaß as Napoleon Fischer
Wolfgang Kühne as Dr. Mennicke
Fritz Staudte as Kühlemann
Wolfgang Heise as von Brietzen
Axel Triebel as Major Kunze
Arthur Schröder as Landgerichtsdirektor
Paul Mederow as Dr. Heuteufel
Friedrich Richter as Lauer
Heinz Keuneke as Gottlieb Hornung
Ernst Wehlau as Sötbier
Antje Ruge as Virgin of Orleans
Kurt-Otto Fritsch as Young Worker
Viola Recklies as Young Worker
Oskar Höcker as Fritzsche
Georg August Koch as Medizinalrat
Martin Rickelt as
7.20
A Fish Called Wanda
7.00
Die Mörder sind unter uns
6.80
Der Verlorene
7.07
Olsen-banden
9.00
Aus der Zeit
6.74
The Tree of Life
7.90
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
8.50
The Dark Knight
6.60
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
6.47
Last Action Hero
7.00
Lethal Weapon 2
7.68
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Made by edimario