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
Curt Goetz
Director, Writer
Max Kaufmann
Writer

Theodor Loos
Friedrich Schiller

Hermann Vallentin
Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Isabel Heermann
Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Max Pategg
Johann Kaspar Schiller, Werbeoffizier

Ilka Grüning
Elisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau

Robert Leffler
Pastor Christoph Moser
Berta Monnard
Rudolf Klein-Rhoden
Hans Carl Mueller
CQ59%
Landline61%
Sterben79%
Almost Friends63%
The Adults62%
SubUrbia61%
The House of Tomorrow67%
Family Weekend63%
Small Apartments58%
My Own Love Song62%
Daddy Longlegs66%
Sometimes Always Never63%
Vom Lokführer, der die Liebe suchte...60%
Herr Lehmann67%
Thin Ice64%
Mickybo and Me70%
Class Act61%
Tschick66%
The Unforgivable74%
The Enforcer70%