Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend

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 GoetzDirector
• Max KaufmannWriter
• Curt GoetzWriter

• Theodor LoosFriedrich Schiller
• Hermann VallentinHerzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
• Isabel HeermannGräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
• Max PateggJohann Kaspar Schiller, Werbeoffizier
• Ilka GrüningElisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau
• Robert LefflerPastor Christoph Moser
• Berta MonnardCast
• Rudolf Klein-RhodenCast
• Hans Carl MuellerCast
• Erich WalterCast
• Kitty AschenbachCast
• Paul BildtCast