This plot is almost an exploitation type story.The kind of films that were being made in the united states and even Germany.Maria Schell plays Pauline, who gets job at a storage company called Karl Johns, owner portrayed by Gustav Knuth.Heidimarie Hatheyer, who had starred in the anti disable propaganda film Ich Klage I in 1941,plays his wife Anna John.Kurd Jurgens portrayed her lazy brother who works for the company Bruno.What's the problem? Pauline has out of wedlock pregnancy,Abortion is unhealthy and was not safe at this time beside being illegal.Anne is also pregnant too.Anna makes a deal with her that she would raise the baby up as if it was hers.She agrees with it.but eventually starts to regret it ,which is perfectly natural for a mother.Anna gets her lazy no good Brother to throw her off.Now it seems she has two babies.But only one is taken out in public.Confusion happens When Pauline decides to see her baby ,she actually seeing Anna's and Her baby is being christen. She takes the baby she thinks is hers to the train station.It's sick and eventually dies.She takes off.On New years eve she and Kurd has a fight .I think he's trying to murder her.But she kill him first.Later on and tries to commit suicide cause she realizes she did wrong and let Pauline know that her baby is still alive and she can have him back.A heart warming ending.Robert Siodmack. directed this.A good example of post war German film classics
Review of The Rats
