Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis führt, 2. Teil. Hyänen der Lust (1919)

The opening of this film, which has a particularly sensational subtitle—“a typical example of the genre of morality and educational films that was popular shortly after the end of the First World War”—shows several scenes from the first part, which centered on the fate of young Aenne Wolter. This drama about the trafficking of girls is followed by another, about the two reckless friends Ilse von Giersdorf and Lilly Gross. The two barely grown women spend their first night away from home in dubious company, and quickly fall into the hands of the unscrupulous traffickers Madame Duval and Ignatz Czyslow. Aenne Wolter, the protagonist of the first film, is abducted and taken to a brothel in Cairo, while Ilse ends up in Madame Forget’s house of ill repute in Valencia and eventually also in Cairo. There, with the help of a girls’ protection league, the Society for Combating the Traffic in Girls, her parents manage to rescue their daughter from the clutches of unscrupulous trafficking gangs. While Ilse is saved, Aenne does not survive the ordeals she has suffered.