The Kaiser's Lackey [36922] Released: 1951-08-31 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 109 mins Popularity: 0.5055 Vote Average: 6.5 Vote Count: 23 Overview: 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... Cast [31] Werner PetersDiederich Heßli Paul EsserRegierungspräsi Blandine EbingerFrau von Wulckow Renate FischerGuste Daimchen Carola BraunbockEmmi Heßling Emmy BurgMagda Heßling Sabine ThalbachAgnes Göppel Friedel NowackMrs. Göpel Friedrich MaurerGöpel Erich NadlerFather Heßling Gertrud BergmannMother Heßling Ernst LegalZillich Raimund SchelcherDr. Wolfgang Buc Eduard von WintersteinBuck sen. Hannsgeorg LaubenthalMahlmann Friedrich GnaßNapoleon Fischer Wolfgang KühneDr. Mennicke Fritz StaudteKühlemann Wolfgang Heisevon Brietzen Axel TriebelMajor Kunze Arthur SchröderLandgerichtsdire Paul MederowDr. Heuteufel Friedrich RichterLauer Heinz KeunekeGottlieb Hornung Ernst WehlauSötbier Antje RugeVirgin of Orlean Kurt-Otto FritschYoung Worker Viola ReckliesYoung Worker Oskar HöckerFritzsche Georg August KochMedizinalrat Martin Rickelt Trailers Der Untertan - DEFA-Trailer