Kurt Maetzig	...	(Director)
Hans Schweikart, Kurt Maetzig	...	(Writer)
Paul Klinger	...	Hans Wieland
Ilse Steppat	...	Elisabeth Maurer
Alfred Balthoff	...	Kurt Bernstein
Claus Holm	...	Dr. Herbert Blohm
Willy Prager	...	Dr. Louis Silbermann
Hans Leibelt	...	Fehrenbach
Lothar Firmans	...	Staatssekretär
Karl Hellmer	...	Gallenkamp
Liselotte Lieck	...	Frau Hallwig
Gerda Mallwitz	...	Ruth Hallwig
Walter Werner	...	Herr Hofbauer
Alfred Maack	...	Voß
Hilde von Stolz	...	Greta Koch
Lilo Nowka	...	Dita Seiler
Rudolf Lenel	...	Bühnenbildner Tornow

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Summary: Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Marriage in the Shadows is modeled after the tragic true story of Meta and Joachim Gottschalk. In the film, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin; Elisabeth in particular is adored by the public. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. When Nazi influence on the theater's management grows, Elisabeth is forbidden from performing. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her...