The Rats

The war has not been over long. Pauline is walking the streets of Berlin. She is a Polish refugee. She is pregnant and alone. The man she is looking for is the one who left her. She does not find him. No other course is open to her. She agrees to give the coming child to a woman called Anna, who wants a child of her own. Money changes hands for it. The birth takes place. Then Pauline goes back on her decision and wants the child. The same child is now what both women want, and the two are set against each other. Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Gustav Knuth and Heidemarie Hatheyer appear in the ninety seven minute film, a German production Robert Siodmak finished in 1955.