Carl Froelich (Director) · Robert A. Stemmle (Writer) · Arno Holz (Writer)
Emil Jannings
Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
Hilde Weissner
Jadwiga, seine Frau
Hans Brausewetter
Rechtsanwalt Falk
Hilde von Stolz
Lydia Link
Harald Paulsen
Niemeyers Sohn
Hans Richter
Primaner Franz Graf von Mettke
Hildegard Barko
Olga, Dienstmädchen bei Niemeyer
Paul W. Krüger
Pedell Schimke
Hannes Stelzer
Kurt von Zedtlitz, Gymnasiast
Hans Joachim Schaufuß
Hans Klausing, Gymnasiast
Rolf Müller
Emmerich Frommelt, Gymnasiast
Alexander Kraft-Hohenlohe
Erwin Putzke
Herbert Hübner
Landrat von Kannewurf
Ernst Waldow
Assessor Mollwein
Otto Stoeckel
Polizeiinspektor Hoppe
Bruno Fritz
Obersekretär Tamaschke
Hugo Froelich
Schutzmann Patzkowski
Gaston Briese
Schutzmann Bellert
Max Rosen
Schutzmann Krebs
Walter Steinbeck
Major Kleinstüber
Walter Werner
Sanitätsrat Brunner
Karl Etlinger
Fabrikant Meier
Harry Frank
Oberlehrer Schwenk
Ernst Legal
Schladebach, Bäckermeister
Else Ehser
Frl. Wetterhahn - Schneiderin
Rolf Moebius
Bit part
Achim Schmidt
Bit part
Werner Vogt
Mann
Peer Baedecker
Mann
Peter Jäger
Mann
Hermann Braun
Mann
Eberhard Schott
Mann
Walter Bienenstein
Mann
Rudolf Klicks
Mann
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This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.
