Overview

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.

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Cast

Lutz Moik

Peter Munk

Hanna Rucker

Lisbeth

Paul Esser

Ezechiel

Paul Bildt

Glasmännlein

Erwin Geschonneck

Holländer-Michel

Hannsgeorg Laubenthal

Hannes

Lotte Loebinger

Peters Mutter

Alexander Engel

Lisbeths Oheim

Karl Hellmer

Meister Anton

Herbert Kiper

Eva Probst

Egon Brosig