Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have a family with her fiancé Paul. When the factory where she and Paul work sacks all striking workers, she tries to find a legal abortion. But there is only the illegal option - the eponymous cyanide.

• Atlantis-Film GmbH
• Grete Mosheim
• Josefine Dora
• Margarete Kupfer
• Paul Henckels
• Paul Kemp
• Blandine Ebinger
• Herma Ford
• Nico Turoff