06 Feb 1931
City Lights
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
Die Fledermaus
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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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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