Felix Bartsch

Un excéntrico millonario reúne a cuatro hombres que, por distintas circunstancias, querían suicidarse. La propuesta que les hace es la siguiente: viajarán a un islote que, según la leyenda, surgió del mar cuando se hundió la Atlántida y que alberga un fabuloso tesoro enterrado por los incas. Pero ese territorio está poblado por la peor banda de piratas y malhechores que haya conocido el mundo.

The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men. This film is considered lost.

Before road movies there were street films, a distinct cycle within German silent cinema. The essential ingredient - misalliance between bourgeois and slum dweller - is present here, though somewhat displaced by Asta Nielsen's star persona. She plays an aging hooker who falls for handsome Felix, a student who has rowed with his parents and ventured into the lower depths. Dreaming of a new life, she ejects her pimp and invests her savings in a cake shop. Even without that title, though, you wouldn't bet on a happy ending. Nielsen is a quite restrained sort of diva, and Rahn likewise soft pedals the melodrama, except for the grand finale. He died soon after making this, his contemporaries regretting the masterworks the cinema was thus denied. Well, maybe.