In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

• Bavaria Film
• Rialto Film
• David Carradine
• Liv Ullmann
• Gert Fröbe
• Heinz Bennent
• Toni Berger
• Christian Berkel
• Paula Braend
• Erna Brünell