Krummen

Before the end of World War I, Krummen is born out of wedlock on a Midsummer Night, and his mother dies in childbirth. He is hired out multiple times and shuffled around, learns, masters, and expands the multiplication table without any outside help, loves serious music, and remains a servant for his entire life. Because of him, farmers are gored by rampaging bulls. In Krummen's presence, maids and peasant women fall into emotional turmoil. When he later has to appear before a military tribunal, the gold suddenly melts from the shoulders and caps of the auditors. At the establishment "Zum Dicken Fuchs," Gustav Mahler is played for him, and three remaining pensioners from the closed asylum manage to patch up the hole in the funds caused by envious farmers for the theatrical servants and maids. Krummen organizes something for the old servants.