Plots(1)
Mineworker Robert Herne is joined by a new colleague – Algol. The extraterrestrial visitor, from a faraway star system of the same name, gives Herne a machine that turns the radiation from his home planet into energy. It becomes the capital for the "Bios plant" with which Herne transforms himself into Earth's ruler by making every country economically dependent on him. Except for one. In a neighbouring agricultural country, Peter Hell is organising timid resistance to the hostile takeover. Hell is the son of Herne's childhood sweetheart, who has emigrated. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
![Emil Jannings](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/339/164339133_439d2e.jpg)
Emil Jannings
Switzerland
Best movies:
Jealousy (1925)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Faust (1926)
John Gottowt
German Empire
Best movies:
Nosferatu (1922)
The Living Dead (1932)
The Student of Prague (1913)
![Hans Adalbert Schlettow](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/496/496790_b9262f.jpg)
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
German Empire
Best movies:
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
Escape from Dartmoor (1929)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
![Erna Morena](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278838_6e6d2d.jpg)
Erna Morena
German Empire
Best movies:
A Night in Paradise (1931)
From Morn to Midnight (1920)
Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law (1921)
![Käthe Haack](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/789/159789565_2fc650.jpg)
Käthe Haack
German Empire
Best movies:
Emil and the Detectives (1931)
Der Fußgänger (1973)
Fireworks (1954)
Gertrude Welcker
German Empire
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Algol. Tragedy of Power (1920)
Ernst Hofmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Algol. Tragedy of Power (1920)
![Hanna Ralph](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/099/533/99533902_67a68c.jpg)
Hanna Ralph
German Empire
Best movies:
Faust (1926)
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)