The doctor Ada Haller pursues a successful career as a scientist, in which she comes more and more into conflict with her marriage and the role expected by society as a woman. An extremely progressive and conventional film at the same time, which takes up modern themes and shows parallels to the life of the leading actress: Esther Carena, real name Franziska Lucia Pfeiffer, studied medicine for a semester before she came to film through acrobatics and pantomime; after their marriage in 1924, she withdrew from an extremely successful silent film career into private life.

Esther Carena

Ada Haller

Blandine Ebinger

Emmi

Marga Köhler

Julia Haller

Sigmund Aschenbach

Carl Wanninger

• Eugen IllésDirector · Director of Photography · Writer
• Alfred Mayer-EckhardtWriter
• Edmund EdelWriter

Release date

November 7, 1919

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

42m

Genres

Drama