John Glückstadt

Adapted from the novel Die Döppelgänger by Theodor Storm this blackandwhite drama tells the tragic story of a war veteran who in 1860 returns to his home in Schleswig Holstein after serving a term for robbery There he finds nothing but hardship and rejection save from the towns mayor and a young servant girl whom he marries Ridiculed and abused with practically no work he turns to drink and one night accidentally kills his wife The child of their marriage is taken away from him and at this point he is left with the options of becoming a robber starving to death or emigrating