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307:, young Ellen Lange runs away from her boarding school in Hamburg, because she cannot stand its strict rules any longer, and escapes to her brother Rolf, who lives in Kiel. Rolf, a vice-helmsman by profession, is not too enthusiastic about Ellen's arrival, because he has to go to England by secret orders. So he tries to convince her to go back to her boarding school, and when they both separate at the station, he is convinced that she will do so. But Ellen is unwilling to give up her new freedom again, so she takes another train to Berlin instead. During the journey, she meets a young girl that promises to help her find a job in Berlin. She also provides Ellen with the address of "Aunt Jenny", a dubious lady who finally gets her a job in a music store. After her three months of probation, Mr. Hansen, her boss, orders Ellen to bring a precious 323:
shop in Copenhagen, and the crew there is rounded up shortly afterwards. Then Ellen learns that the papers she smuggled out of the country have led to the destruction of her brother's submarine. Deeply affected by his death, she gives in to Larsen to take on to another spying order with him which leads them both via Copenhagen to London. When they are invited to a ball at the American military delegation there, Ellen manages to distract Colonel Stanley long enough for Larsen to search the colonel's desk and to steal important papers from it. But when the boss of Lyra publishing house arrives at the party, he recognizes her and gets her arrested. During a German
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agent who works under cover at the Lyra publishing house, that in fact is a centre of the enemy's espionage ring. After that, she decides to work for the German secret service to make up for her fault. As a first step, after returning to Berlin, she tells the German counterespionage about the music
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The location shooting started on 7 October 1932, while the studio shooting began only two weeks later, on 21 October 1932. The final movie passed censorship on 22 December 1932 and made its debut just a day later in Berlin's
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Only after her arrival at Copenhagen, Ellen learns that she has not only transported the violin, but also secret strategic papers that were stolen in Berlin. She also meets Erik Larsen, a German
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attack, Larsen is able to free her again, but while the two are attempting to escape, in a final irony Ellen is fatally injured by the fragment of a German bomb.
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Richard Eichberg
Robert A. Stemmle
Curt Siodmak
Max W. Kimmich
Joe Pasternak
Trude von Molo
Karl Ludwig Diehl
Theodor Loos
Bruno Mondi
Willy Zeunert
Hans May
Deutsche Universal-Film
German
spy
thriller film
Richard Eichberg
Trude von Molo
Karl Ludwig Diehl
Veit Harlan
Paul Hörbiger
Robert A. Stemmle
Curt Siodmak
Max W. Kimmich
Johannisthal Studios
Berlin
on location
Hamburg
art directors
Artur Günther

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