Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.

• Dea-Film
• Peter Esser
• Mady Christians
• Alfred Abel
• Hildegard Imhoff
• Mathilde Sussin
• Franz Egenieff
• Rudolf del Zopp
• Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg