During a journey of the "Ceder", the Captain, von Moltmann, disappears. It looks like an accident, but it could also have been murder. Attorney Dr. Burger and superintendent Störensen discover quickly that two of the crewmen hated the Captain: Chief officer Rohlfs suspects an affair between his fianceé Gerda and von Moltmann. Chief engineer Sparkuhl thinks the Captain has seduced his niece, who later committed suicide. The court decides that the Captain has gone overboard without anyone else's "help", but the rumors don't come to an end.
Lída Baarová
Albrecht Schoenhals
René Deltgen
Willy Birgel
Grethe Weiser
Alexander Golling
Rudolf Platte
Ernst Karchow
Annemarie Steinsieck
Jupp Hussels
Alexander Engel
Alfred Karen
Max Harry Ernst
Hans Kettler
Karl Dannemann
Ernst Legal
Rudolf Biebrach
Friedrich Ettel
Karin Luesebrink
Edgar Nollet
Walter Schramm-Dunker
Theodor Thony
Hugo Werner-Kahle
Martha Ziegler
Auguste Wanner-Kirsch