Desc: Der Besuch der alten Dame: Directed by Max Peter Ammann. With Maria Schell, Günter Lamprecht, Jürgen Cziesla, Otto Mächtlinger. An immensely rich woman, no longer young, returns to the town she had to flee in disgrace as a teenager. She can, she intimates, give the community the financial help it desperately needs. But there's a catch.