STORY
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.
CAST & CREW
- Christine Schorn
- Gunter Schoß
- Dieter Franke
- Kurt Böwe
- Jürgen Holtz
Cast
- Gerd Keil
- Helmut Schiemann
Directors
INFORMATION
Production Companies
- East Germany
Production Countries
LANGUAGES
- English