A Girl Goes Ashore (1938)

Plot Summary

Erna, the daughter of a Hamburg coastal skipper, loses her fiancé to the sea. In her grief, she first flees to relatives, then takes her fate into her own hands and starts working for a shipowner in Blankenese. When she slowly begins to develop feelings for a man again, he turns out to be a marriage swindler. But again she does not give in to despair. In her conciliatory attitude to life, she is able to settle a marital dispute between the shipowner and his wife and finally finds her own happiness in love - through a former friend who is himself a widower. She starts a family with him and the children of his deceased wife.

Full Cast & Characters

Herbert A. E. Böhme

Friedrich Semmler

Elisabeth Flickenschildt

Erna Quandt

Heidi Kabel

Inge

Günther Lüders

Krischan

Hans Mahler

Hein Groterjahn

Lotte Lang

Maid

Alfred Maack

Quandt

Maria Paudler

Lisa Stürmer

Luise Morland

Grete Schilling

Claire Reigbert

Aunt Mariechen

Carl Kuhlmann

Jonny Hasenbein

Karl Günther

Walter Sthümer

Director & Crew

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