

Small Town Poet
1940 · 96 min · Comedy
Paul Schleemueller is the town clerk of Schonbach, but secretly, he is counting on becoming the municipality's mayor one day. However, Paul's real passion is poetry, which he has never admitted to anyone, because he thinks it is unworthy of a municipal dignitary to write poems.
- Director
- Josef von Báky
- Writers
- Utz Utermann, H.W. Becker
- Released
- December 20, 1940
- Language
- German
Cast

Paul Kemp
Paul Schleemüller, Stadtsekretär

Georg Alexander
Assessor von Bornefeld, Pauls Vorgesetzter

Hilde Hildebrand
Lona Elvira

Hans Brausewetter
Lerche, Redakteur des Schönbacher Tagblatts

Hans Leibelt
Von Lindau, Landrat

Georg Thomalla
Siegfried, Angestellter bei Emil
Hermann Mayer-Falkow
Der Chauffeur Lona Elviras

Hilde Schneider
Lotte Ziemer
Edith Oss
Lisette Siebenlist

Wilfried Seyferth
Emil Kurz, Friseur

Hans Junkermann
Geheimrat Parisius

Claude Farell
Zenzi
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