Damals (1943)

Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...

Drama
Crime
Romance
Music

Top billed cast

Zarah LeanderVera Meiners aka Gloria O'Connor
Hans StüweJan Meiners, Rechtsanwalt
Rossano BrazziPablo, Radrennfahrer und Clown
Hilde KörberFrau Gaspard, Mutter des operierten Kindes
Hans BrausewetterCorbeau, Friseur
Herbert HübnerProfessor Rigaud, Klinikleiter
Agnes WindeckGast beim Abendempfang
Walter GrossKellner in der Hotelbar
Karl MartellFrank Douglas, Versicherungsagent
Jutta von AlpenBrigitte Meiners (as Jutta v. Alpen)

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