It is a love story between a prostitute and an artist. It was one of the first German films to break several taboos: nudity, suicide and euthanasia. In the Germany of the '50s, this caused a lot of negative reactions by the politicians and the Roman Catholic Church. The opposition reached the degree of banning the film and scandalizing it which paradoxically made it one of the landmarks in the history of film.
Hildegard Knef
as Marina
Gustav Fröhlich
as Alexander
Änne Bruck
as Buba
Robert Meyn
as von Hernsdorf
Jochen Meyn
as Eduard von Hernsdorf (as J. Wolfgang Meyn)
Irene Mirbach
as
Benno Gellenbeck
as The Art Dealer
Theo Tecklenburg
as
Karl Kramer
as
Horst von Otto
as
Carl Voscherau
as
Wera Frydtberg
as Irmgard
