All for Money

Synopsis

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.

Main Cast

Emil Jannings

S. I. Rupp

Age : 65 | Popularity : 25%

Hermann Thimig

Fred Rupp

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

Dagny Servaes

Asta

Age : 67 | Popularity : 9%

Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein

Frau von Laar

Age : 98 | Popularity : 8%

Walter Rilla

Henry von Lauffen

Age : 86 | Popularity : 25%

Curt Goetz

Graf Ehrhardt

Age : 71 | Popularity : 21%

Maria Kamradek

Sissy

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Paul Biensfeldt

Kammerdiener Pitt

Age : 64 | Popularity : 9%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Reinhold Schünzel
Art	Art Direction	Kurt Richter
Writing	Writer	Rudolf Stratz Hanns Kräly
Camera	Director of Photography	Alfred Hansen Ludwig Lippert
Department	Role	Name

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