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Trailer
The Kaiser's Lackey
6.5
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1h 49m
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1951
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Released
Overview
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...

Cast
Werner Peters poster
Werner Peters
Diederich Heßling
Paul Esser poster
Paul Esser
Regierungspräsident von Wulckow
Blandine Ebinger poster
Blandine Ebinger
Frau von Wulckow
Renate Fischer poster
Renate Fischer
Guste Daimchen
Carola Braunbock poster
Carola Braunbock
Emmi Heßling
Emmy Burg poster
Emmy Burg
Magda Heßling
Sabine Thalbach poster
Sabine Thalbach
Agnes Göppel
Friedel Nowack poster
Friedel Nowack
Mrs. Göpel
Friedrich Maurer poster
Friedrich Maurer
Göpel
Erich Nadler poster
Erich Nadler
Father Heßling
Gertrud Bergmann poster
Gertrud Bergmann
Mother Heßling
Ernst Legal poster
Ernst Legal
Zillich
Raimund Schelcher poster
Raimund Schelcher
Dr. Wolfgang Buck
Eduard von Winterstein poster
Eduard von Winterstein
Buck sen.
Hannsgeorg Laubenthal poster
Hannsgeorg Laubenthal
Mahlmann
Friedrich Gnaß poster
Friedrich Gnaß
Napoleon Fischer
Wolfgang Kühne poster
Wolfgang Kühne
Dr. Mennicke
Fritz Staudte poster
Fritz Staudte
Kühlemann
Wolfgang Heise poster
Wolfgang Heise
von Brietzen
Axel Triebel poster
Axel Triebel
Major Kunze

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