Overview - The Wife's Crusade

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 59 minutes

Homepage: The Wife's Crusade

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

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Spoken Languages

  • No Language

Production companies

  • Name: Arthur Ziehm, Internationale Film Exchange (Berlin)

    Production country

Overview

A working-class couple with four children live in extreme poverty in a rear building. When the woman becomes pregnant again, she goes to a young doctor and asks him to terminate the pregnancy, as the child would be too much of a burden for her. The doctor refuses to perform the procedure because it is against the law, so she has the abortion herself and dies in the process. The public prosecutor has the man arrested and the four children are left to fend for themselves. The prosecutor's fiancée, a young teacher, lives in the front building. When she is raped and becomes pregnant in her apartment by the porter's wife's mentally disturbed son, the doctor, deeply affected by the case of the working-class couple, performs an illegal abortion on the teacher and confronts the public prosecutor with the case of his own fiancée. The public prosecutor resigns because he can no longer reconcile his office with his conscience.

Cast

  • Name: Conrad Veidt

    Character: Der Staatsanwalt

    Popularity: 0.5328

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  • Name: Maly Delschaft

    Character: Die Lehrerin

    Popularity: 0.1374

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  • Name: Harry Liedtke

    Character: Der Arzt

    Popularity: 0.2409

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  • Name: Werner Krauss

    Character: Der Idiot

    Popularity: 0.1301

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  • Name: Ernst Hofmann

    Character: Der moderne Mann

    Popularity: 0.0468

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  • Name: Andja Zimowa

    Character: Die moderne Frau

    Popularity: 0.0143

  • Name: Fritz Alberti

    Character: Arbeiter

    Popularity: 0.1927

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  • Name: Gertrud Arnold

    Character: Arbeiterfrau

    Popularity: 0.0915

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