Robert Kühnel

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by criminal cases. Therefore he is the only one who does not see that his violin has no future. He solves the criminal mysteries in passing but the final test shows that the famous detective is tone-deaf.

In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.

마리라는 똑같은 이름을 가진 두 소녀는 세상이 썩었다고 생각한 나머지 일탈 행위를 즐기며 자신들만의 삶을 영위하려 한다. 그러나 자신들의 생각이 틀렸다는 결론에 도달한 두 소녀는 어떤 선택을 내린다. 관습을 깨뜨리는 몽타주와 이미지의 왜곡 등 다양한 영화 장치를 통해 무정부주의적 유머를 선사하는 베라 히틸로바의 초기 대표작.