der untertan ( 1951 ) and direct by star director wolfgang staudte and be base on a novel by heinrich mann ( 1871 1950 ) a der blaue engel ( 1930 ) and direct by josef von sternberg and be . while in der blaue engel and the protagonist be a person who can not adapt to the world around him and and when he try and shamefully stumble and at the end pay his attempt with his life and the main figure in der untertan be so to say the complimentary character represent although bear in an aristocratic and high class family and surround by the world literature and regular house concert and thus widely detach from bourgeoisie and he find out that he may make carrier by break out of this status group isolation in try to meddle with politics . he also find out that for him and the best way be to put hand over hand along the rope that lead upwards while kick the one who be come below him . the result be and however and that he blunder not only in public but often also in his private life . the film have an interesting and yet totalitarian and typical gdr end which kind of disturbs the otherwise excellently craft master piece for which werner peter in the role of dr. hessling and the director of the film get the great gdr state price . this movie and an extremely impressive list of some hundred of title more and meanwhile practically the collected work of the defa and the state film company of the former gdr or ddr and we owe to the department of german study of the university of massachuset at amherst that have obviously take over the legacy to maintain and foster the gigantic film work of the other germany which have cease to exist in 1990 .