20 Jul 1936
The Emperor of California
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.
The Kaiser's Lackey
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...
Top Billed Cast
Werner Peters Diederich Heßling
Paul Esser Regierungspräsident von Wulckow
Blandine Ebinger Frau von Wulckow
Renate Fischer Guste Daimchen
Carola Braunbock Emmi Heßling
Emmy Burg Magda Heßling
Sabine Thalbach Agnes Göppel
Friedel Nowack Mrs. Göpel
Friedrich Maurer Göpel
Erich Nadler Father Heßling
Gertrud Bergmann Mother Heßling
Ernst Legal Zillich
Raimund Schelcher Dr. Wolfgang Buck
Eduard von Winterstein Buck sen.
Hannsgeorg Laubenthal Mahlmann
Friedrich Gnaß Napoleon Fischer
Wolfgang Kühne Dr. Mennicke
Fritz Staudte Kühlemann
Wolfgang Heise von Brietzen
Axel Triebel Major Kunze
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