Overview

Else is the pretty daughter of a Viennese lawyer. The young lady has been invited by her aunt to spend a few days on a summer holiday in San Martino. There she receives an express letter from her mother requesting her to ask the wealthy art dealer Dorsday for a much-needed loan. Her father is facing bankruptcy due to embezzlement. Else approaches Dorsday and describes the difficult family situation. Dorsday is willing to lend the necessary money, but stipulates that Else must expose herself to him naked for a quarter of an hour. Else reacts indignantly to this request, but over the course of the evening realizes the dilemma she faces. Caught between unconditional loyalty to her father and a strong longing for autonomy and self-determined femininity, she cannot commit to either alternative.

Top Cast

Miguel Herz-Kestranek

Sohn Paul

Curd Jürgens

Dorsday

Marianne Nentwich

Fräulein Else

Susi Nicoletti

Tante Emma

Eva Kerbler

Frau Cissy

Louise Martini

Frau Winawer

Adrienne Gessner

Stimme der Mutter

Andrea Giordana

Pietro

K

Kurt Nachmann

Portier

N

Nino Albonese

E

Elisabeth Andergast

Jochen Brockmann