“Sirk's third feature film for UFA was an adaptation of Ibsen's famous play, ‘Pillars Of Society'.... Several characteristic Sirkian elements can be detected in the film: the strengthening of Ibsen's social criticism; the removal of classical suspense; emphasis on falseness and pretence in small town life - detonated and blown away by the return of the innocent ‘victim' (Albrecht Schoenhals), as in All I Desire."