• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Melodrama
• Main Cast: Werner Krauss, Olga Tschechowa, Hans Moser
• Release Year: 1936
• Country: AT/DE
• Run Time: 120 minutes

Plot

In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire from the stage. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an aspiring actor, a break. The old actor learns the painful truth and though wounded, understands that the relationship would never have worked. When the young actor attempts to end his life, following the loss of his job at the Burg Theatre, it is the elderly actor who saves him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Werner Krauss - Friedrich Mitterer
• Olga Tschechowa - Baroness Seebach
• Hans Moser - Sedlmayer, Prompter

Karl Skraup - Schindler; Josefine Dora - Mrs. Schindler; Eric Frey - actor of Burg Theater; O.W. Fischer - actor of Burg Theater; Rudolf Teubler - Majordomos; Otto Hartmann - Actor; Maria Holst - Fritzi; Carl Esmond

Credit

Willi Forst - Producer; Willi Forst - Screenwriter; Jochen Huth - Screenwriter; Ted Pahle - Cinematographer; Werner Schlichting - Art Director; Peter Kreuder - Composer (Music Score); Hans Wolff - Editor