Traumulus

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.

CAST

Emil JanningsProf. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus

Hilde WeissnerJadwiga, seine Frau

Hans BrausewetterRechtsanwalt Falk

Hilde von StolzLydia Link

Harald PaulsenNiemeyers Sohn

Hans RichterPrimaner Franz Graf von Mettke

Hildegard BarkoOlga, Dienstmädchen bei Niemeyer

Paul W. KrügerPedell Schimke

Hannes StelzerKurt von Zedtlitz, Gymnasiast

Hans Joachim SchaufußHans Klausing, Gymnasiast

Rolf MüllerEmmerich Frommelt, Gymnasiast

Alexander Kraft-HohenloheErwin Putzke

Herbert HübnerLandrat von Kannewurf

Ernst WaldowAssessor Mollwein

Otto StoeckelPolizeiinspektor Hoppe