Bruno Arno

"The Red Cat" is a seedy dive. The rich American, Jefferson, who shows up there one day with his family and who recently became the proud owner of the famous Halifax emerald, particularly attracts the attention of the patrons of the "Cat". One of them approaches the Americans disguised as a marquis, but he has not reckoned with Jefferson's daughter, Jessie.

Superfluous People is a 1926 German silent film made by Prometheus-Film which was affiliated to the German Communist Party and the Moscow-based Mezhrabpomfilm. Russia, at the time of Tsarist rule. At the center of the plot are several lower middle class people with their worries and needs in a shtetl in the deepest province that is disconnected from major world events: they are down-to-earth craftsmen and service providers like the carpenter Bronsa.