Summary
Fritz Kortner’s first film as director with sound is the only film based on a screenplay by Alfred Polgar: It is based on Polgar’s play “Die Defraudanten” (adapted from Valentin Katajev’s novel of the same name) and tells the story of chief cashier Leopold Pichler, a family man of strict moral standards and a man of principle. On a rainy Saturday, he and his subordinate, Wittek, go to the bank to withdraw 8,000 schillings for the director, Baron Max von Härtl. However, the director has left for Vienna, so the two cashiers follow him there with the money, because: “You can always count on Pichler!” In the big city, Pichler finds himself in a glamorous nightclub, alongside the black jazz dancer Kitty, and gets caught up in gambling. The money is lost, his reputation seems irretrievably ruined, and further events push Pichler and Wittek to the brink of madness—until, finally, everything takes an unexpected turn for the better.
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