Fritz Knochenhauer
Este el primer filme producido en Alemania tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con el auspicio de los recién creados estudios DEFA. Un hombre y una mujer regresan a un Berlín en ruinas; la mujer, Susanne Wallner, es una superviviente de un campo de concentración, que a pesar de los horrores que ha sufrido desea reiniciar su vida. Al regresar a su apartamento, encuentra que el Dr. Hans Mertens está viviendo ahí. El médico es atormentado por las memorias de su rol en la guerra.
During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Since all his personal documents were in it, he not only looses his money but also his identity. The thief turns out to be a cunning con man, who uses the papers for his criminal schemes. Soon enough, a warrant is issued, and eventually both men – the thief and the innocent guy – are arrested. But since all the red tape of the government causes even more confusion, the odyssey of the victim searching for his lost identity has just started.
Sylvia has succeeded in making her son Robert a minister in the French Republic. His old servent, Gabriel, interrupts the young man during an "erotic" conference with the singer Betty. She's there, because her politically inappropriate songs is about to get her banned from the stage, which the minister would like to prevent. A fight breaks out between Robert and Gabriel and Sylvia, his mother, has to confess to Robert, that Gabriel is actually his father. When the minister once again misbehaves, this time at a ball, his servant and father Gabriel decides that the time has come to slap his son in everyone's presence. Robert is forced to resign and a journalist from the People's Front suggests Gabriel for the post of minister. - The film was classified after the end of the german third empire as a reservation film.
