Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).

• Richard Oswald Produktion
• Conrad Veidt
• Anita Berber
• Magnus Hirschfeld
• Reinhold Schünzel
• Fritz Schulz
• Leo Connard
• Ilse von Tasso-Lind
• Ernst Pittschau