Tells of the tribulations of a middle-aged official of the Austro-Hungarian Bureau of Weights and Measures in fighting the local shopkeepers and traders whose weights are frequently light.

Helmut Qualtinger
Anselm Eibenschütz

Agnes Fink
Regina Eibenschütz

Velimir Živojinović
Leibusch Jadlowker

Evelyn Opela
Euphemia Nikitsch
Kurt Sowinetz
Kapturak

Anna Báró
Rosa Kapturak

István Iglódi
Josef Nowak

Johannes Schaaf
Slama
Rudolf Strobl
Piotrak

Manyi Kiss
Soscha Szaczkes

Sándor Siménfalvy
Onufrij
Ladislaus Ferencz
First Mortgagee
Fritz Hochwälder
Second Mortgagee
György ifj. Gonda
Third Mortgagee
Kálmán Erdődy
Fourth Mortgagee