The Metropol-Theater, situated Unter den Linden, was famous for its extravaganzas that were all the rage among Berlin society from 1903 to 1913. Since its opening in 1898, a number of musical and showbiz talents started out at the Metropol-Theater alongside established artists like composer Paul Lincke (1866-1946) or Fritzy Massari (1882-1969), an operetta singer headlining the Metropol. Every year in September a new creation was performed and the Berlin elite hurried to these satiric cabarets, whose main theme was Berlin by night in all its versions.  The First World War put an end to the extravaganzas in 1914 but not to the Metropol-Theater, which resumed its activities after the war with operetta shows, until it went bankrupt in 1927.

Schutzmannlied was part of the 1908 extravaganza entitled Donnerwetter-Tadellos! The film introduced comedian Henry Bender (1867-1933) for the first time on screen, who became a known actor of German cinema until the end of the 1930’s, successfully overcoming the often fateful transition to talking pictures.

This sound film initially recorded with sound-on-disc was for a long time shown as silent, the original disc having been lost.  The recent discovery and the synchronisation of a recording of the age by music historian Christian Zwarg allow as much as possible the film to be presented in its original version, and finally to see and hear Henry Bender as a "Po-Po-Policeman".