92 minutes
9/22/1938
A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.

Willy Fritsch
as Richard Hellwerth

Käthe von Nagy
as Lissy Eickhoff

Bernhard Minetti
as Dr. Heinrich Breuer

Erich Ponto
as Theodor Kalbach

Rudolf Schündler
as Von Tettenboom

Ethel Reschke
as Gast bei Eickhoffs Fest

Wolfgang Staudte
as Arbeiter bei Hellwerth
Hermann Mayer-Falkow
as Fabrikant
Karl Morvilius
Hellmuth Passarge
as Polizist

Hermann Pfeiffer
as Büring

Georg H. Schnell
as Dr. Klipper