"SEX IN CHAINS" "This film is based on a work about the sexual desire of prisoners, by Franz Höllering, and on actual statements by Karl Plättner, the author of the detailed book "Eros in Prison", the material for which he collected during his eight-year imprisonment." "Following the premiere in Berlin, the German Human Rights League assumed responsibility for this film." "Part 1" "Franz Sommer, Engineer." "Father!" "I am just passing through and have only an hour stopover." "This is the maid's day off." "How is your husband?" "May I say good-day to him?" "I will call the factory to see if he's available." "Too bad..." "Franz and one of his executives are en route to an important meeting" "Help Wanted." "Franz, look sharp, customers arriving!" "You have just been filmed!" "You still haven't found a job, my dear Sommer?" "Go there, maybe my recommendation will be helpful." "Alfred Wernicke asks that you cordially receive the bearer of this card" "Full-time employment is out of the question, but if you'd like to act as a sales representative on commission..." " please do." "With such a glum look you won't get anywhere." "You need to smile." "Another attempt - maybe something will come of it." "My father was here, he brought it along." "While we hide our situation from father, you cannot expect anything else from him." "In response to your application, we are willing to engage you." "You may begin work as soon as tomorrow." "Respectfully." "Before you were laid off, we savored the good times together." "Now that times are hard, I want to help earn our living." "Maybe you can also show us how the device cleans furniture, entirely without obligation of course!" "Oh Fifi, it's just the thing for you!" "We work all day and still never get done." "Clean already?" "The device seems very practical, but I just can't decide whether to buy it." "Well, here's your commission - quite a nice start." "You've given me too much by mistake." "Thank goodness you're here - some guy has been pestering me all night." "Please leave me alone" " I'll lose my job." "Leave my wife alone." "LEAVE MY WIFE ALONE!" "End of Part 1" "Part 2" "Did I call Steinau... - or Sommer!" "?" "Don't be so desperate..." "he will recuperate." "Then you will surely be acquitted!" "Keep me in your heart!" "If I find out whose lies sent me up, I'll kill him!" "If only she doesn't have to starve!" "Nice state of affairs - when some informer can send an innocent man to prison!" "Is that your final word?" "I don't care if he's found guilty" " I will not get divorced!" "Then we have nothing more to say to one another." "I'll sustain a loss from the downtime while I'm imprisoned." "I will be acquitted in the end, but who compensates for my damage?" "The bail is accepted." "You are free!" "I will keep my promise to you:" "I shall help your wife." "Jail has taught me to look at the world with new eyes." "From her husband in prison?" "Dear Madam, I promised your husband to relieve his concern for you and for that reason ask you to call on me in my office at your earliest convenience." "Respectfully, Paul Steiner" "I was imprisoned together with your husband during investigation..." "Would you care to accept a position in my business?" "We can only hope the injured man will live, or the matter can become serious for you." "Abandonment of the proceedings against the Steinau plants ...the State Attorney's Office has dropped the charges filed against the owner of the Steinau plants." "Steinau intends to file suit Max Wallraff, who was knocked down by engineer Franz Sommer, presently held in prison, has succumbed to the injuries..." "Now he is in for it." "However I can help you, I shall!" "In the name of the people." " Despite the gravity of the deed..." " emotional act..." " the immaculate past life..." " after long indecision, the court has..." " decreed a sentence of three years of prison..." "End of Part 2" "Part 3" "Three years...!" "Can one survive that?" "!" "In the night only Friedland stars can beam!" "Has it seized you yet?" "Just wait, this too will pass." "I've lived to see someone unman himself, just so he could finally sleep." "Human beings will always be such, even if they have sinned against society!" "Is it not hard enough to be locked away from the world... must also one punish the culprit in a way that his punishment also hurts the innocent?" "Not for me, Mr. Baron," " My imagination lets me do without such gimmicks!" "Why are we allowed to eat, drink, sleep, and only that?" "Are we not human?" "Stay at home..." "you're excused for today." "Let me work... otherwise I don't know how I shall bear it." "I've lived to see someone unman himself, just so he could finally sleep." "To the doctor" "Allow me to go to my girl just once or I'll go mad!" "Simulator!" "Just imagine, a naked woman molded from breadcrumbs." "It is hell here." "Even the strongest weakens under this depravation." "At the same time" "I can understand this man, because I too suffer terribly from the distance to you." "A person gone once astray must not despair of the moral order in prison and become a real criminal!" "To be part of this solution shall be my life's work!" "End of Part 3" "Part 4" "Mrs. Sommer!" "Are you doing well?" "You must not worry about me;" "Mr. Steinau is a true friend." "He also gave me employment." "End of visiting time!" "Well, Mr Baron, how did the 8 days of sanatorium agree with you?" "Plead for me that I'll be allowed my bride... only one day... else I cannot live on." "You've brought the handkerchief back from visitation." "Three days of solitary!" "Dismissed!" "Who is this, who enters there?" "Oh, look who's coming there!" "He smells like outside!" "Tell me about outside." "My husband" "My husband..." "My husband!" "..." "My husband!" "......" "Husband!" "......" "Husband......" "End of Part 4" "Part 5" "Yield not to temptation, but turn your hearts aloft and God shall carry you through." "I cannot describe my sufferings to you." "It is horrible here and only thoughts of you, of your fidelity and bravery, hold me up." "When I get out..." "You shall know everything, everything, everything." "Alfred, what are you thinking of?" "Place your hand over your heart and promise that you won't laugh at me!" "I shall never laugh at you." "Why don't you say something - do you despise me?" "Prison Warden" "Punishment should not be an act of social revenge, but one of instruction for mankind in living together." "We prison officers have no higher duty." "If it isn't always successful, it isn't always due to us." "Why are husband and wife not allowed to spend their few visiting hours unsupervised?" "For once I will make an exception!" "Just a quarter of an hour" "I was with him..." "I wanted to tell him everything but I could not do it." "What has become of me!" "I am to blame for everything!" "You are no more guilty than he or I" " the laws men make are bad and brutal..." "they mercilessly plunge us into the depths!" "If I were to ask him to release you and you were to become my wife...!" "No!" "No!" "I love him... only him!" "End of Part 5" "Part 6" "Mr Marquis, please honor us with your presence soon again." "Mr von Sommer, you are next." "I thank you with all my heart for everything you have done for me." "Now I will visit Sommer in prison - he has to release you." "I beg you not to do that." "Live for your idea to moderate the penal system, and forget me!" "I hoped to have you at my side as my wife in this battle..." "Penal System Reform" "Why don't the prisoners themselves complain?" "Because they are afraid, Mr. Representative." "Is it not to weep when millions are spent to help horses, cats and dogs... and so little for the betterment of men!" "There can surely be no argument that prison must be less agreeable than freedom." "I know in theory there is a modern penal system." "In practice however, everything remains unaffected." "Isn't being caged enough?" "Allow the possibility of short leaves instead of trying to contain natural drives with exercise and saltpetre." "Punishment must remain a penalty." "We cannot put sofas in the cells!" "Thank you, Mr Representative." "In any case, I know whom not to elect in the future!" "To be postponed until further notice" "Tomorrow he will come out of prison!" "If he is rich, you can get a nice little sum out of him." "This will advise that your husband will be released from prison on October 1, 1928 at 10:00." "Your husband would like you to come for him." "FIRST YEAR" "SECOND YEAR" "THIRD YEAR" "Now I can go wherever I wish - but no longer to you!" "So Steinau has spoken with you after all?" "!" "What is Steinau supposed to have talked about with me?" "Back then someone touched you and I struck him down" " today everything is so different!" "Forget?" "..." "I will never forget how strong and upright was our commitment!" "And now... truly, The Law punishes thoroughly!" "Madam, if I've destroyed your happiness - forgive me." "I cannot continue living..." "go, you are free." "We belong together..." "as in love, as in guilt." "Even if it can end only this way?" "In the end, too!"