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.
Franziska Wollner
Werner Belling
von Elchem
Krauter
Rebbin
Dinkbühl
Bürgermeister
Fischer
Leutnant von Osten
Senator
Schauspielerin
Schauspieler
Garderobiere
Wirtin
Schließer
Schauspieler
Chauffeur
Schauspielerin
Herr
Inspizient
Dame
Schauspieler
Dienstmädchen
Erzähler (voice)