
26 Jun 1936

San Francisco
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

World War II had finished, but it left indelible marks.
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Leopold Kessler

Katharina Hartmann

Lawrence Hartmann

Uncle Kessler

Pater

Max Hartmann

Siggy

Colonel Harris

Narrator (voice)

Steleman

Seifert

Inspector

Mr. Ravenstein

Mrs. Ravenstein

Man in Housecoat
Jewish Wife

Father
American Soldier

Man with Papers

Depot Assistant

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