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.
as Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
as Jadwiga, seine Frau
as Rechtsanwalt Falk
as Lydia Link
as Niemeyers Sohn
as Primaner Franz Graf von Mettke
as Olga, Dienstmädchen bei Niemeyer
as Pedell Schimke
as Kurt von Zedtlitz, Gymnasiast
as Hans Klausing, Gymnasiast
as Emmerich Frommelt, Gymnasiast
as Erwin Putzke
as Landrat von Kannewurf
as Assessor Mollwein
as Polizeiinspektor Hoppe
as Obersekretär Tamaschke
as Schutzmann Patzkowski
as Schutzmann Bellert
as Schutzmann Krebs
as Major Kleinstüber
as Sanitätsrat Brunner
as Fabrikant Meier
as Oberlehrer Schwenk
as Schladebach, Bäckermeister
as Frl. Wetterhahn - Schneiderin
as Bit part
as Bit part
as Mann
as Mann
as Mann
as Mann
as Mann
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