Traumulus (1936)

Trama

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
• Bruno FritzObersekretär Tamaschke
• Hugo FroelichSchutzmann Patzkowski
• Gaston BrieseSchutzmann Bellert