Desc: Die Ratten: Directed by Rudolf Noelte. With Cordula Trantow, Günter Lamprecht, Gottfried John, Brigitte Strohbauer. Berlin in the early 1950s: the young Polish woman Pauline Karka comes to the city to go to West Germany. She is pregnant and without a permanent home. When Pauline meets the laundry owner Anna John, hope grows for Pauline. Anna John is childless and comes to an agreement with Pauline. She will look after the girl until she is born and adopt the child as her own.