Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen

Directed by Manfred Noa

With Paul Wegener, Andrée Lafayette, Werner Fuetterer, Nien Sön Ling and Kurt Gerron

Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.