The living conditions during the period of inflation in the early 1920s are depicted in a fascinating way. Behind a shiny façade, ordinary people struggle for bare survival. Opposite them stand landowners and former military personnel with their complacency, ignorance, and emptiness! The title character, Wolfgang Pagel—a cadet officer, unemployed and a gambler out of desperation—loses everything on the night before his wedding and sets out in search of money in the inflation-ridden Berlin of the 1920s.

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Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Wolfgang Pagel

Wolfgang Langhoff

Rittmeister von Prackwitz

Herbert Köfer

Gutsverwalter von Studmann

Friedel Nowack

Minna

Annekathrin Bürger

Petra Ledig

Agnes Kraus

Frau Thumann

Marga Legal

Frau Pagel

Ingeborg Naß

Valuten-Vamp

Erik S. Klein

von Zecke

Helga Labudda

Violet von Prackwitz

Jürgen Frohriep

Leutnant Fritz

Edwin Marian

Inspektor Meier