Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.

Helmut Qualtinger
Zauberkönig

Birgit Doll
Marianne

Hanno Pöschl
Alfred

Jane Tilden
Valerie

André Heller
Hierlinger

Eric Pohlmann

Adrienne Gessner
Alfred's Grandmother
Götz Kauffmann
Oskar

Norbert Schiller
Rittmeister
Robert Meyer
Erich
Martha Wallner
Alfred's Mother

Walter Schmidinger
Conférencier
Elisabeth Epp
Baroness

Lil Dagover
Helene

Vadim Glowna
Priest