It is the time before the First World War - in a fishing village on the Baltic Sea coast, the unusual love story of the young, ambitious lawyer Belling and the fun-loving actress Franziska begins. The young couple believes in career in the neighboring big city, would not be there the rich businessman of Elchem, who limits their love power of his money. Franziska has found an admirer and patron in the entrepreneur - a woman between two men who plays, but cleverly he makes the couple financially dependent on himself... The film adaptation of the novelle by Heinrich Mann describes the moral decay of a social layer fixed on success and money at the beginning of the 20th century.
as Franziska Wollner
as Werner Belling
as von Elchem
as Krauter
as Rebbin
as Dinkbühl
as Bürgermeister
as Fischer
as Leutnant von Osten
as Senator
as Schauspielerin
as Schauspieler
as Garderobiere
as Wirtin
as Schließer
as Schauspieler
as Chauffeur
as Schauspielerin
as Herr
as Inspizient
as Dame
as Schauspieler
as Dienstmädchen
as Erzähler (voice)
