二战后，美国作家马丁（约瑟夫•科顿JosephCotten饰）应好友哈里（奥逊•威尔斯OrsonWelles饰）邀请到维也纳工作，岂料刚到达目的地就传来了哈里车祸身亡的消息。哈里葬礼上，马丁遇到了当地军官卡洛维，卡洛维很不客气的请他马上离开维也纳。马丁没有理会，决心留下调查出好友死亡的真相。马丁找到哈里的女友斯科姆特小姐（阿莉达•瓦莉Ali…

Georg Kaiser decribes in his expressionist theater play the attempt of a bank cashier to escape his middle class daily life. Director Karlheinz Martin's adaptation transfers Kaiser's play into an expressionist film of radical stylization. The German film industry was so irritated by the result that the film never found…