Endlich der Vergessenheit entrissen: Das Kino Debüt von Bruno Ganz. Zugleich der Archetypus eines Autorenfilms des "jungen deutschen Kinos". Der erste Spielfilm von Haro Senft, Initiator des Oberhausener Manifests.
Twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.<br /><br />Twin brothers are seperated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.