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While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.Read moreLess
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
The story
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
Cast & crew
Elisabeth BergnerElse Thalhof
Albert BassermannDr. Alfred Thalhof
Albert SteinrückVon Dorsday
Adele SandrockTante Emma
Jack TrevorPaul
Paul MorganCast
Ellen PlessowCast
Irmgard BernCast
Toni TetzlaffCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Paul Czinner
- Director of Photography
- Karl Freund
- Writer
- Carl Mayer
- Writer
- Paul Czinner
- Director of Photography
- Adolf Schlasy
- Director of Photography
- Robert Baberske