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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.
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East Germany
asFranziska Wollner
asWerner Belling
asvon Elchem
asKrauter
asRebbin
asDinkbühl
asBürgermeister
asFischer
asLeutnant von Osten
asSenator
asSchauspielerin
asSchauspieler
asGarderobiere
asWirtin
asSchließer
asChauffeur
asInspizient
asDame
asDienstmädchen
asErzähler (voice)
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