The Kaiser's Lackey
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...
- Director
- Wolfgang Staudte
- Screenplay
- Wolfgang Staudte
- Screenplay
- Fritz Staudte
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- Is The Kaiser's Lackey free to watch?
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- Who is in the cast of The Kaiser's Lackey?
- The Kaiser's Lackey stars Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Blandine Ebinger, Renate Fischer.
- What kind of film is The Kaiser's Lackey?
- The Kaiser's Lackey (1951) is a drama, history, comedy film.
