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