Gold (1934)

‘For centuries, people have endeavoured to produce gold artificially. Because gold is the luck and curse of the world.’ Engineer Werner Holk is forced to watch helplessly as his teacher, who has come dangerously close to the secret that the alchemists are after, dies in a laboratory explosion. Holk suspects an act of sabotage behind the attack and soon receives an invitation from a Scottish industrial magnate to continue his research in his lead mine ...
Gold is, as F.P.1 does not answer, enjoyable, competently shot science fiction, but also unites the contradiction between the spirit of optimism of the Weimar Republic and Nazi ideology: who, if not a German engineer, puts international capital in its place? (Florian Widegger)

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