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.
Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus

Jadwiga, seine Frau

Rechtsanwalt Falk

Lydia Link

Niemeyers Sohn

Primaner Franz Graf von Mettke

Olga, Dienstmädchen bei Niemeyer
Pedell Schimke
Kurt von Zedtlitz, Gymnasiast

Hans Klausing, Gymnasiast
Emmerich Frommelt, Gymnasiast
Erwin Putzke
Landrat von Kannewurf

Assessor Mollwein

Polizeiinspektor Hoppe
Obersekretär Tamaschke

Schutzmann Patzkowski
Schutzmann Bellert
Schutzmann Krebs
Major Kleinstüber

Sanitätsrat Brunner

Fabrikant Meier

Oberlehrer Schwenk

Schladebach, Bäckermeister

Frl. Wetterhahn - Schneiderin
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