Mathilde Möhring

Story

Synopsis

Berlin, around 1900. Art student Hugo Großmann takes his work lightly and his pleasure seriously! A friend’s warnings do no good. He fails his exams. In the vegetable cellar of the widow Möhring, he finds cheap lodging and, in her daughter Mathilde, the person he needs. Hugo resists her positive influence for a long time. As his affection for the girl grows, so does his ambition. Hugo passes his exams, but then the easy life beckons him once again! Mathilde emerges victorious this time as well: he takes the post of mayor in Woldenstein and makes her his wife. It becomes their shared success to secure a railroad connection for the small town against all odds. At the inauguration, a tragedy claims Hugo’s life.

Director

Claus Peter Witt

Writers

Theodor Fontane, Ludwig Cremer

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

18 February 1968

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Cornelia Froboess

  Mathilde Möhring

• 

  Edda Seippel

  Mutter Möhring

• 

  Ernst Jacobi

  Hugo Grossmann

• 

  Herbert Bötticher

  Rybinski

• 

  Gisela Uhlen

  Landrätin

• 

  Hans Deppe

  Schultze

• 

  Annemarie Hase

  Frau Schmädicke

• Hans Mahnke

  Baron Goschin