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The Kaiser's Lackey

31 Aug 1951
  • East Germany
109 mins
6.5
23 votes
  • Drama
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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...
  • 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

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