Traumulus

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Carl Froelich

Writers

Robert A. Stemmle, Arno Holz

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

23 January 1936

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Emil Jannings

  Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus

• 

  Hilde Weissner

  Jadwiga, seine Frau

• 

  Hans Brausewetter

  Rechtsanwalt Falk

• 

  Hilde von Stolz

  Lydia Link

• 

  Harald Paulsen

  Niemeyers Sohn

• 

  Hans Richter

  Primaner Franz Graf von Mettke

• Hildegard Barko

  Olga, Dienstmädchen bei Niemeyer

• Paul W. Krüger

  Pedell Schimke

• 

  Hannes Stelzer

  Kurt von Zedtlitz, Gymnasiast

• Hans Joachim Schaufuß

  Hans Klausing, Gymnasiast

• Rolf Müller

  Emmerich Frommelt, Gymnasiast

• Alexander Kraft-Hohenlohe

  Erwin Putzke