| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : sound, black and white |
| Summary |
This historical satire, based on Heinrich Mann's world-famous novel, Der Untertan, is ranked by film critics among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. In Mann's biting critique of conservative Wilhelmine Germany, written during WWI, lower middle-class man Diederich Hessling learns an important lesson for an ambitious man: one must first serve power to gain power for oneself. From then on, his modus operandi is to bow to superiors and kick underlings |
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Title from title frames |
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Based on the novel by Heinrich Mann |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1951 |
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Includes bonus film : Interpreting the Kaiser's lackey, with historian Andrew Donson (18:55), directed by Michael Aronson |
| Credits |
Cinematography, Robert Baberske ; editor, Johanna Rosinki ; music, Horst-Hanns Sieber |
| Cast |
Werner Peters (Diederich Hessling), Renate Fischer, Sabine Thalbach, Paul Esser, Carola Braumbock, Emmy Burg, Friedrich Maurer, Blandine Ebinger, Erich Nadler |
| Event |
This version produced by DEFA Film Library |
| Notes |
German dialogue with English subtitles |
| Subject |
Middle class -- Germany -- Drama
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Toadyism -- Drama
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Ambition -- Drama
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Despotism -- Drama
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Despotism
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Middle class
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Toadyism
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Ambition
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Germany -- Drama
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Germany
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Internet videos
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Comedy films
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Drama
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Fiction films
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Feature films
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Film adaptations
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Historical films
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Comedy films.
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Historical films.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Internet videos.
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Films comiques.
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Films historiques.
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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Films de fiction.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Staudte, Wolfgang, 1906-1984, screenwriter, film director.
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Staudte, Fritz, screenwriter.
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Sieber, Horst-Hanns, composer (expression)
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Teichmann, Willi, film producer.
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Peters, Werner, 1918-1971, actor.
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Wilson, Renate, 1930- actor.
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Thalbach, Sabine, 1932-1966, actor.
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Esser, Paul, actor.
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Ebinger, Blandine, actor.
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Nadler, Erich, 1881-1960, actor
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Baberske, Robert, director of photography.
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Rosinki, Johanna, editor of moving image work.
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DEFA, production company.
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Progress Film-Verleih.
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Progress Film-Vertrieb (Berlin, Germany), film distributor, presenter.
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst. DEFA Film Library, presenter.
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