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