The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to the world as Paracelsus.

• Bavaria-Filmkunst
• Bavaria Film
• Werner Krauß
• Mathias Wieman
• Peter Martin Urtel
• Harald Kreutzberg
• Fritz Rasp
• Herbert Hübner
• Franz Schafheitlin
• Hilde Sessak