Man of Gold

Faithful to his word Michael Tímar captain of the St Barbara becomes the guardian of Kondya daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run Later he weds the grateful young Turkish girl whom he saved from the waters of the Danube While skillfully managing his wifes fortune entrepreneur Tímar becomes an important wholesaler of wheat and exports his products to Brazil But his marriage of convenience proves a failure He is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization governed by money and the ideal of freedom consisting of living simply within nature He then takes refuge by the side of the sweet Noemi on an island on the Danube