Rolf Möbius

The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm is taking care of Irene. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage.

Returning to the Fatherland after years abroad, a youth finds his mother and sister are pressuring him to marry a certain girl. But he prefers the daughter of a baker.

A patriotic period melodrama in which a father and son are in love with the same lady.The son does not tell her that his father,an officer, has fought in a duel over her, but lies that he has left her for the army.

Four soldiers on leave from the German army refuse to participate in the leftist October 1918 revolution in Berlin.

Prince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt—Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles—son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking about French politics. Gentz enlists the help of ballerina Fanny Elsser, all the rage in several European capitals, to keep the Duke distracted.