For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
as Jacques Tüverlin
as Johanna Krain
as Dr. Martin Krüger
as Erich Bornhaak
as Kaspar Pröckl
as Dr. Franz Flaucher
as Katharina von Radolny
as Paul Hessreither
as Förtsch
as Dr. Hartl - Amtsgerichtspräsident
as Baron Reindl
as Vorsitzender Disziplinarausschuß
as Staatsanwalt
as Franz-Xaver Ratzenberger
as Mathilde Berath
as Nazi-Ortsgruppenleiter
as Fräulein Sernau
as Hillinger
as Lechner
as Bäcker Gierl
as Bichler
as Dr. Siegbert Geier
as Dr. Otto Klenk
as Walburga Ratzenberger
