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Satire about Diederich Hessling, a weakling of the lower middle class who rises in the world by obsequiously deferring to those above him and brutally tyrannizing those of lower station.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Progress Film-Vertrieb (Berlin, Germany), DEFA, Icestorm Entertainment GmbH
Other Authors: Staudte, Wolfgang, 1906-1984, Staudte, Fritz, Teichmann, Willi, Peters, Werner, 1918-1971, Esser, Paul, Thalbach, Sabine, Fischer, Renate, Winterstein, Eduard von, 1871-1961, Legal, Ernst, Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950
Format: Video DVD
Language:German
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Icestorm Entertainment, [2002]
Subjects:
Middle class > Germany > Drama.
Ambition > Drama.
Toadyism > Drama.
Despotism > Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, German.
Feature film.
Description
Summary:Satire about Diederich Hessling, a weakling of the lower middle class who rises in the world by obsequiously deferring to those above him and brutally tyrannizing those of lower station.
Item Description:DVD release of the 1951 film.
Based on the novel by Heinrich Mann.
A foreign film (East Germany).
Full screen presentation.
Aspect ratio 4:3.
Special features include: Filmography and biography of Wolfgang Staudte und Werner Peters; The Eyewitness 8/1946/1; The Eyewitness 26/1946/2; The Eyewitness 2/1954/7b; View of a historian; photo gallery; original movie theater plakat.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; PAL; Dolby digital 2.0; requires a PAL DVD player.
Production Credits:Music, Horst Hans Sieber ; editor, Johanna Rofinsti.