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The Years Pass
The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.
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The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Erich Ebermayer, Richard Nicolas
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Runtime:81 minutes
Studio:Tobis Filmkunst
Cast
Günther Rittau
Director
Heidemarie Hatheyer
Frau Irene Behrendsen
Carl Kuhlmann
Senator Ferdinand Kersten
Werner Fuetterer
Wilhelm Kersten, dessen Sohn
Agnes Windeck
Fau Mathilde Kersten
Franz Schafheitlin
Justizrat Carlsen
Walter Gross
Scholtes, Besitzer einer Instrumentenhandlun
Rolf Moebius
Peter Behrendsen
Michael von Newlinsky
Walter Franck
Käthe Dyckhoff
Willy Birgel
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