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
Richard Hellwerth
Käthe von Nagy
Lissy Eickhoff
Bernhard Minetti
Dr. Heinrich Breuer
Erich Ponto
Theodor Kalbach
Rudolf Schündler
Von Tettenboom
Ethel Reschke
Gast bei Eickhoffs Fest
Wolfgang Staudte
Arbeiter bei Hellwerth
Hermann Mayer-Falkow
Fabrikant
Karl Morvilius
Hellmuth Passarge
Polizist
Hermann Pfeiffer
Büring
Georg H. Schnell
Dr. Klipper
Robert A. Stemmle
Director
