Die Durchgängerin (1928)
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Käthe von Nagy, Hans Brausewetter, Jean Dax, Vivian Gibson, Karl Platen, Mathias Wieman, Adele Sandrock
After her father decides to send her to boarding school, Ilsebill reaches a breaking point and decides to elope with her boyfriend.
The story
Ilsebill and her father, Senior Government Councillor Thoms, are devoted to one another, but they have been constantly arguing since he married Gina, his much younger second wife. When a false suspicion leads Thoms to decide to send Ilsebill to a girls’ boarding school, she reaches her breaking point. Unable to bear staying at home any longer, she decides to elope with her boyfriend, Hans. Their choice follows the ongoing conflict between father and daughter.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Ilsebill is the daughter of Senior Government Councillor Thoms. The daughter and her father are genuinely devoted to each other, but ever since Thoms married Gina, his second and considerably younger wife, he and Ilsebill have been constantly arguing. One day, a false suspicion leads Father Thoms to decide to send Ilsebill away to a girls’ boarding school. That is the last straw for Ilsebill. One day, she can no longer bear staying at home and decides to elope with her boyfriend, Hans. The two leave Germany and impulsively emigrate to the United States. To afford their passage, Ilsebill takes a job as a kitchen assistant and her boyfriend as a stoker. Once they arrive in the land of opportunity, the couple build up a small fortune through hard work. When they have “made it,” Ilsebill decides to return and see how her father is doing. In the meantime, he has been bitterly disappointed by his second wife, who has run off with a younger man, the composer Wladimir. At last, the moment has come for father and daughter to reconcile.
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