Holmes Zimmermann

Three siblings, Tom, Jack and Mary escape poverty in the big city to find happiness in the wild west. They split up and soon find each other again on in the opposite side of the law.

Hell on Earth (German: Niemandsland) is a 1931 German film directed by Victor Trivas. The film is also known as No Man's Land in France.

Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. Along with them lives "the Tenant", his soon-to-be bride Friede, who works as a prostitute, and her child whose name isn't revealed in the film. Mutter Krause is a quiet, long-suffering old woman who earns what little she can delivering newspapers. However, Paul is an alcoholic and spends all her money on drink. Mutter Krause can't pay back the money she owes the man whose newspapers she delivered and he accuses her of stealing and threatens her with arrest. Mutter Krause must then pawn her last valuable possession, a treasured memento of her late husband. Paul then breaks into the same pawn shop. He gets away but is later arrested. Meanwhile, Erna begins dating a young man with Communist views, who turns Erna to Communism and also helps her earn the money her mother needs by more honest means.

Berlin. À sa sortie de prison, le camelot Franz Biberkopf veut reprendre le droit chemin, mais est embarqué dans une affaire de cambriolage. En résistant, il est jeté d'une voiture. Amputé d'un bras à la suite de cet accident, il change alors d'orientation et décide de collaborer avec Reinhold, mauvais garçon notoire, responsable de ses misères. Franz devient un grand voleur perverti par l'argent. Pourtant, deux femmes proches de lui, Miese, petite chanteuse des rues, et Cilly, son ex-petite amie, s'unissent pour lui faire changer de vie.

Powerful semi-documentarian depiction of the miserable working and living conditions in the Silesian city of Waldenburg.