On the eve of WWI, Russian landowner’s son Nicholas Tarabas, a Catholic sympathizer turned assassin exiled to America, returns as a ruthless soldier dubbed “the Terrible.” Yet when anti-Jewish violence erupts, his conscience awakens for the first time.
The story of a male friendship in the tough show business of entertainer Frank Haller, a man full of charm and wit, and his spirited manager Jochen Below. They were at the top of the ladder of success. But when Haller's wife died of loneliness, his success left him too. Below even went to prison...