1937 German drama film directed by Willi Forst

1940 film directed by Robert A. Stemmle

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.