Overview

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters

Top Cast

Theodor Loos

Friedrich Schiller

Hermann Vallentin

Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg

I

Isabel Heermann

Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim

M

Max Pategg

Johann Kaspar Schiller, Werbeoffizier

Ilka Grüning

Elisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau

Robert Leffler

Pastor Christoph Moser

B

Berta Monnard

R

Rudolf Klein-Rhoden

H

Hans Carl Mueller

E

Erich Walter

K

Kitty Aschenbach

Paul Bildt