The Crammer

The Crammer

Directed by	Axel von Ambesser
Written by	Curth Flatow Eckart Hachfeld [de]
Produced by	Claus Hardt Kurt Ulrich
Starring	Heinz Rühmann Wera Frydtberg Gert Fröbe
Cinematography	Erich Claunigk
Edited by	Walter Boos
Music by	Raimund Rosenberger
Production company	Kurt Ulrich Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Gloria Film
Release date	3 October 1958 (1958-10-03)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Crammer (German: Der Pauker) is a 1958 West German comedy film directed by Axel von Ambesser and starring Heinz Rühmann, Wera Frydtberg and Gert Fröbe.^[1] It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Berthel and Robert Stratil.

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Plot

Germany in the mid-1950s: Dr. Seidel (Rühmann) 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 graduating 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 (Löwitsch), 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 (Löbel) living next door in the same boardinghouse. On the other side of his boardinghouse is a wrestler (Fröbe) who teaches him wrestling tricks in exchange for teaching "good German" as the wrestler proves to be illiterate.