Emmerich Frommelt, Gymnasiast
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.
Pupil
Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela "Profesor Unrath" de Heinrich Mann. Narra la tragedia de un severo profesor que una noche va a "El Ángel Azul", un cabaret de mala fama, para llevarse de allí a sus alumnos, que acuden al local seducidos por los encantos de la cantante Lola-Lola (Dietrich). Sin embargo, el profesor Rath, un solterón de 50 años, acaba cayendo en las redes de la cabaretera. A partir de entonces, su vida será un descenso a los infiernos de la humillación y de la degradación moral.
Fritz
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
