The Years Pass (1945)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Walter Bechmann

Director & Crew

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