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| name = The Crammer

| image = The Crammer.jpg

| director = Axel von Ambesser

| producer =

| writer =

| starring =

| cinematography = Erich Claunigk

| music = Raimund Rosenberger

| editing = Walter Boos

| studio = Kurt Ulrich Filmproduktion

| distributor = Gloria Film

| country = West Germany

| language = German

| runtime = 91 minutes

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'The Crammer' is a 1958 West German comedy film directed by Axel von Ambesser and starring Heinz Rhmann, Wera Frydtberg and Gert Frbe.'The A to Z of German Cinema'. p. 304

The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Berthel and Robert Stratil. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich.

Plot



Germany in the mid-1950s: Dr. Seidel (Rhmann) is a successful teacher at a high school in a provincial town. Old fashioned and dutiful as he is, he takes on the challenge to teach a class at a big city high school, when asked by the governmental school inspector. On arrival at his new working place he is hit by a student while trying to settle a quarrel among youngsters in the schoolyard. The beginning looks like an omen: his new class proves to be an unruly gang. While trying establish discipline Dr. Seidel makes himself quite unpopular; he is even faced with mobbing by a former student (Lwitsch), who is now a gang leader with criminal ambitions. However Dr. Seidel is made of stern stuff and step by step wins the respect first of one student (Kraus), then of all others, thereby ruling out the gang leader, and he learns to respect the students.

In a side story Dr. Seidel courts the older sister (Frydtberg) of a student but is defeated, so he falls back to a co-teacher (Lbel) living next door in the same boardinghouse. On the other side of his boardinghouse is a catcher (Frbe) who teaches him catching tricks in exchange for teaching "good German" as the catcher proves to be illiterate.

Cast



* Heinz Rhmann as Dr. Hermann Seidel

* Wera Frydtberg as Vera Bork

* Gert Frbe as Freddy Blei

* Bruni Lbel as Frl. Selinski

* Ernst Fritz Frbringer as School inspector Wagner

* Hans Leibelt as Headmaster Wiesbacher

* Franz-Otto Krger as Headmaster Gaspari

* Klaus Lwitsch as Harry Engelmann

* as Martin Rssler

* Michael Verhoeven as Peter Wieland

* Peter Vogel as Eduard Neureiter

* as Axel

* as Rudi Br

* Peter Kraus as Achim Bork

References



Bibliography



* Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. 'The A to Z of German Cinema'. Scarecrow Press, 2010.


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