Alexander Kraft-Hohenlohe

제2차세계대전 중인 1944년 말. 독일군의 라인강 방어선을 뚫고 독일 본토로 진격하기 직전인 미군은 독일군의 정보를 수집하기 위해 독일군 포로 2명을 스파이로 침투시키기로 결정하는데...

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.