director: Richard Eichberg
year: 1924
country: Germany

Eva has but one passion: motors. In her workshop, she works on a new boat motor invention of her own. One day, Frank, a convict on the loose, jumps in front of her sports car. Eva gives Frank a job in her father’s factory, and together they work to finish the motor. They take the boat to a big race, where its engine will truly be put to the test. However, its fuel tank explodes. Frank saves Eva but his cover is blown. Together they flee from the police, and get married in London.
On the South American coast, Frank is about to be arrested again, but he jumps into the ocean and disappears. Believed dead for many years, Frank later returns, only to find Eva has remarried. Frank is forced to realize that Eva has now found happiness without him. After a great act of sacrifice in which he saves the life of his rival in love, he commits suicide.

Screenplay: Helmuth Ortmann; based on an idea of James Cox.
Directors of Photography: Heinrich Gärtner, Erich Grimmler.
Set Design: Jacek Rotmil [aka Jaques Rotmil].
Costumes: Theag, Berlin.
Music: Eric Borchardt (theatre music).
Cast: Angelo Ferrari (Frank Bruhn, engineer), Max Grünberg (Heinz Ellhof, fiddler), Lilian Harvey (features as Lee Parry's 'double' in certain scenes), Ernst Hofmann (Hans von Corell), Sinaida Korolenko (Lilli, the sister of Frank Bruhn), Margarete Kupfer (Marta, the wife of Gustav Briese), Hans Mierendorff (Johann Amberg, a big industrialist), Lee Parry (Eva, the daughter of Johann Amberg), Gerhard Ritterband (Max, an apprentice), Erwin van Roy (Gottlieb Daffke, a vagabond), Hans Sturm (Gustav Briese, head-workman).
Production Company: Eichberg-Film GmbH, Berlin.
Producer: Richard Eichberg.
Length: 6 acts, 2432 m.
Format: 35 mm, 1:1.33.
Picture/Sound: b/w, silent.
Censorship Details: 6 Dec 1924, B.09461, ban for young people; 8 Dec 1924, O.00567, ban for young people.
Première: 22 Jan 1925, Berlin (Marmorhaus).

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

The company Jupiter-Film in Vienna distributes this film.