The Golden Plague (German: Die goldene Pest) is a 1954 West German drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Ivan Desny, Karlheinz Böhm, and Gertrud Kückelmann.

[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Bütow.

Location shooting took place in Dotzheim and Kaiserslautern.

Ivan Desny plays a disillusioned exile returning to Germany from the United States.

The film centers around drug trafficking and the black market.