Theater director Falke, dressed as a bat, ends up in prison after a merry carnival night. Director Frank only releases him after some time. Falke decides to take revenge on his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein, to whom he owes the whole affair. The annual masked ball at Prince Orlofsky's provides the opportunity. Falke stages a game of mistaken identity in which Eisenstein does not recognize his own wife and courts her, while maid Adele appears as the countess. Eisenstein is duped, Falke has taken his revenge.
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Cast
Marte Harell
Rosalinde Eisenstein
Johannes Heesters
Herbert Eisenstein
Will Dohm
Theaterdirektor Michael Falke
Dorit Kreysler
Adele
Willy Fritsch
Gefängnisdirektor Frank
Hans Brausewetter
Tenor Alfred Melzer
Joseph Egger
Frosch
Siegfried Breuer
Prinz Orlowsky
Heinz Salfner
Inspektor
Franz Böheim
Office writer I.T. prison
Hermine Ziegler
Mimi Stelzer
Cook at Eisensteins
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