"Sascha Film presents" "Director" "Director of Photography" "Set Design" "Set Decoration" "Art Department" "Executive Producer" "Producer" "Cast" "Due to Mr. Harber's actions, hundreds of thousands lost their money in the stock market in London." "20,000 pounds...my entire fortune...!" "You have reduced me to poverty!" "Scoundrel...!" "I'm not the stock market." "Mrs. Agathe Conway, her mother..." "Erika Wagner" "The turning point of a happy young life." "You finally have to make a decision!" "Please mother, I can't take the proposal of Harber seriously." "He could be my father." "So you really want to give up your fine and carefree life?" "I shall sacrifice my happiness and all my hopes of my youth for that?" "Happiness, youth, - how naive you are." "The young sculptor, Harry Lighton, loves Mary with all his heart." "Miss Mary Conway, who is paying tribute to a new kind of fashion, poses as a model for the well-known sculptor, Harry Lighton." "The statue - it will be called "Sodom" - should embody the symbols of beauty and sin." "Harber is drawn to the beauty of the girl in such a huge way that he tries to win her at any price." "The mother lends the voluptuary a helping hand." "Dearest mother-in-law, I have won 20,000 pounds for you." "Be patient for a moment;" "I have to sort out an old matter." "Don't play games with me, Mary!" "I have waited 3 days for you in vain..." "I'm not getting any further with my work at all!" "I also don't have any time for you today." "I just wanted to bring you an invitation to Harber's for tonight." "There will be some neat surprises!" "For heaven's sake, Mary...!" "Don't you realize that you are on the edge of a precipice...?" "Aren't you afraid to chain yourself to an old man?" "Empty phrases!" "..." "Much ado about nothing!" "Farewell, Harry; a time will come when you will understand me." "The engagement party of an aging tycoon." "My engagement party will be celebrated this evening." "Don't come to Harber's." "I have to..." "Don't be sad" " You have to make yourself play the part of the family friend." "Let the young couple live a long life!" "Under cover of darkness...in the Japanese pavilion." "...later, when nobody is watching us." "So you really did come!" " You didn't act wisely." "Don't you see what you are doing ?" "..." "You are going to rush blindfolded into ruin!" "That can't be helped...." "Don't be mad at me, Harry..." "I need this pomp and circumstance around me, I can't live without it." "It is wiser to live without thinking." "Mary!" "If you leave me now, I will shoot myself in front of you!" "Ah?" "!" "This is a comedy?" "Men are all the same!" "But first, a cigarette for the moment..." "And now:" "let the game begin!" "Terrible!" "What have I done!" "Hurry!" "A doctor!" "But nobody must find out!" "And now that everything good in me has died, all sin in me has awoken!" "Let sin runs its course!" "On the same evening, Eduard, the young son of Harber, accompanied by his tutor, an ascetic priest, returned to the home of his father." "Both of them suddenly see themselves rushed into the gaiety of the festivity." "Eduard Harber Student at the Cambridge-Lyceum" "His tutor..." "And two innocent souls are dragged into all this vile turmoil." "Father!" "For Christ's sake!" "I almost forgot that I have such a grown son...!" "I have graduated from school and brought my tutor along for the holidays." "Quick, change your clothes, I'm going to introduce you to society!" "But please don't worry...a young man like that...!" "He shall know what life is all about at an early age!" "Here - the lost son - comes directly out of the convent!" "Eduard is smitten with a raging passion for Mary, who tries to seduce the innocent young boy with all her love skills." "A dying man, here...?" "In this palace of pleasure?" "!" "You are really a charming boy." "I'm almost in love with you." "It was my destiny..." "It's not your fault..." "And in the ancient wine cellar, which has almost become a junk room..." "Stop behaving in this sinful manner!" "The hand shall be blessed that sweeps away this pitiful world, which is ripe for annihilation!" "You seem to forget that you are in the debt of this dying man, whom you drove to suicide." "Don't you feel any remorse...?" "Is your heart without any compassion?" "!" "The world is to blame that I'm this sinful..." "My mother was ashamed of me and she hid me from common people..." "Maybe I'm only so bad because I haven't found anyone who was willing to guide me a man like you..., a saint... you might be able to save me from the gutter." "Lunatic!" "Away you go" " You godforsaken woman!" "Go get my luggage immediately!" "We are taking the next express train!" "A last attempt to lead Eduard back to the path of righteousness." "Don't slander her!" "She is pure and honorable, and I love her!" "Mary is waiting in the pavilion for Eduard." "She is weighed down with weariness and starts dreaming..." "Who is knocking?" "Somebody, who wants to rob you of me..." "Don't let it happen!" "You are the only one I love!" "Rescue me!" "Father!" "We have to say, this was only an unfortunate accident!" "You unfortunate man, what have you done?" "!" "It's terrible!" "The police are in the house.." "Please help me..." "My dress is torn ..." "God shall give you strength!" "Why don't you answer me?" "Confess your crime, you are the murderer!" "You see, there is no help for her!" "He might have done it, but it was she who gave him the dagger!" "Because of this temptress he has lost his mind!" "The court of cassation has denied the petitions for clemency for Mary Conway and Eduard Harber!" "I just have one last wish..." "And a tormented soul seeks solace from its agonies." "The devilish temptation has made me so unstable." "I'm no longer worthy of this vest I'm wearing!" "Your tests have not yet ended, my son." "It is her wish that you accompany her on her last way..." "If you pass this test, you shall have atoned for your sin." "I'm the cause of your depravity." "Please have pity on your mother and forgive her!" "Whatever your sin is" " If you are going to repent with all your heart, God will forgive you." "Only the unrepentant will find no forgiveness!" "You don't really think that I have sent for you to make a confession?" "No, not at all!" "I have sent for you - to look into your eyes once again and to tell you, how much I love you..." "My scaffold!" "That terrible pounding all through the night..." "I'm going mad!" "Rescue me" " Drop your charge" " And I will be yours!" "Daughter of Sodom!" "Even in your last moments you are more interested in your body than in your soul!" "Depraved world, new Sodom and Gomorrha!" "You are ready to be destroyed." "In your palaces vice celebrates orgies as once in the city of Lot...!" "After this curse by the priest, Mary begins to see in her dreams a tremendous vision of biblical Sodom." "Mary sees herself as Lia, the wife of Lot." "We are going to announce the big feast day, which will be celebrated in honor of the goddess Astarte." "Youth- Spring- Love" "Lot's wife is preparing herself for the feast of Astarte." "Today no one in the temple will be able to withstand your beauty!" "And Lot watches with disgust how his own wife decorates herself to honor the blasphemous idol." "Come in and share the pleasures with us in the temple of Astarte!" "Why should I?" "Why watch complete strangers embrace you in their arms?" "I'm not going with you." "And the Lord spoke to Abraham: thou shalt have no other gods before me!" "Astarte is my goddess." "She commands us to sacrifice our bodies on the altar of pleasure!" "The feast of Astarte!" "Lord, please send your angel so that this sinful city can be punished!" "Hide yourself" " Because every stranger who sets foot in this town will be meet his death!" "Oh Lord, come into my house and stay here until the next morning!" "Lia, I love you, but not as the others..." "The angel visits Lot's home." "The servants of the priests are aware of that..." "Within the meaning of our law, no stranger is allowed to set foot in this town on the festive days!" "We have to notify the priests!" "To the temple of Astarte!" "Where is the man who has visited you?" "Lead him out!" "Show him to us!" "You have come here..." "Out of a far-away country..." "Just because of me..." "Behold to lead me away from here..." "...the prophecy shall be fulfilled..." "I'm alone in here!" "The Lord has send me here so that I can punish this town for its sins!" "Know, stranger, that one hint from me is enough to have you sacrificed in the temple of Astarte!" "Take stock of yourself, woman, your sins are enormous!" "Are you rejecting me?" "Lia is running to the priests..." "All of a sudden the crowd turns quiet..." "They drag the victim to the temple." "The priests choose Lia as the high priestess." "If you are really an angel" " Why can't you save yourself?" "I'm the priestess Lia!" "I'm going to light your funeral pyre!" "You have turned yourself away from love, which could have led you out of this sinful city." "But you despised love!" "In her dreams, Mary changes now into the queen of Syria." "While the queen is celebrating orgies with her youths, the people starve." "Everybody is celebrating" " The guards and the serfs." "From an adjacent city comes a youth who admires the queen from afar." "It is true" " She is indeed the queen of Syria!" "The ruler of Syria is looking for a new lover!" "By command of the queen: the food leftovers of the big feast are to be thrown to the dogs!" "The hungry, the poor and the beggars." "The guard has strict orders to dispel them." "Be gone!" "Go away from the dogs's meal!" "The indomitable are forced to do hard work." "The queen gives an order to turn in all silver and gold on pain of capital punishment!" "The physician Agamemnon." "Look, the ruler is surrounded by flamboyance and luxury!" "And we starve!" "The youth dreams of meeting the queen." "Queen, the taxation is oppressive and too much!" "Take him away!" "Beat him with rods!" "Soon after this, the youth becomes a goldsmith at the court of the queen and is inflamed with passion for her." "The death of the admired physician is the final straw..." "Enough with all this agony and derision!" "We will put an end to the taxes and frauds of the priests!" "The queen must die!" "Death to the torturers and exploiters!" "Rise up!" "Long live the new ruler of the world!" "Now comes the payback for the priests, their minions, and the serfs." "The youth realizes the imminent risk of death for the queen." "The legionnaires try to stop the riot, but..." "Let's hang the defenders of the queen!" "The royal baggage train will be destroyed." "Run!" "Your life is in danger!" "With tremendous energy the youth fights off the attackers." "The king of the Ammonites is coming to the ruler's rescue." "They carry battering rams and firebrands to the city wall." "Fire projectiles spare nothing and no one." "The city wall withstands the onslaught for a time." "Residents of the city seek to escape the fire by going into the lake." "Helpless and defenseless people are stricken with disaster." "They try in vain to leave the city." "By order of the king, the city of the insurgents will be completely destroyed." "Thousands of women and children perish." "After the army of the Ammonites has invaded the city, only the queen's palace has been spared." "A bitter struggle begins against those who have remained in the city." "After days of struggling..." "Oh, thou ruler of the world!" "Savior!" "The king of the Ammonites" "Thy slave greets you, dearest queen!" "This intrusive youth has been boring me for quite some time..." "Throw him into the dungeon!" "The armies of the Ammonites." "At the will of the queen, the youth now receives his "reward" for his unconditional love and devotion: he is sentenced to death." "In her dreams, Mary turns again into Lia, the wife of Lot." "Lot tries to save Lia and himself from the sinking Sodom." "The Lord loves you!" "Run, but don't turn around and take another look at this city of depravity!" "The angel of the Lord leads Lot and his wife out of the bursting city." "On the run, she once again turns around and takes one last look at the city of sins and turns into a pillar of salt." "If you had once experienced the pain of redemptive love, it might have led you out of the city of sins, but you despised it..." "Spare my life." " I'm still so young!" "Mary's way to the scaffold." "This was a terrible nightmare!" "Within half an hour I have experienced tremendous tragedies..." "Mother, we have to go away from here!" "What are you doing, you unfortunate one?" "Forgive me, father" " I forgot myself!" "I'm leaving" " You are right." "You should drive home!" "I have to get something!" "He is being operated on now." "Please wait a moment and be patient; any excitement might be bad for him!" "Days have gone by... and in the hallway of the hospital there is waiting patiently..." "Mary." "He's doing better!" "Anyone, who is loved that much, cannot die!" "And one night..." "The end"