Max Vierlinger

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.

À Stuttgart en 1733, un juif ambitieux, Süss Oppenheimer, devient le ministre des Finances du faible duc de Wurtemberg. Il parvient à s'infiltrer dans l'État grâce au prêt usuraire. Pour compenser ses dettes, le duc confie à Sùss l'administration des routes du duché et les péages. Sous l’influence d’un rabbin, il fait du duché un paradis pour ses coreligionnaires. Pour faire face à l'opposition grandissante des habitants, il suggère au duc de supprimer la Diète du Wurtemberg. Il réunit pour cela une armée de mercenaires.

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.

Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.