Desc: Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen: Directed by Manfred Noa. With Paul Wegener, Andrée Lafayette, Werner Fuetterer, Nien Soen Ling. Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.