Overview - The Wife's Crusade

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: 1.4755

  

• Name: Maly Delschaft

  Character: Die Lehrerin

  Popularity: 0.4284

  

• Name: Harry Liedtke

  Character: Der Arzt

  Popularity: 0.3875

  

• Name: Werner Krauss

  Character: Der Idiot

  Popularity: 1.1701

  

• Name: Ernst Hofmann

  Character: Der moderne Mann

  Popularity: 0.2553

  

• Name: Andja Zimowa

  Character: Die moderne Frau

  Popularity: 0.0143

  

• Name: Fritz Alberti

  Character: Arbeiter

  Popularity: 0.5

  

• Name: Gertrud Arnold

  Character: Arbeiterfrau

  Popularity: 0.1174