Loading credits…
When a quartet’s tenor dies shortly before a music festival, the members recruit Paul Schippel, a socially disdained clarinet player with an exceptional singing voice. He wins the contest but is cast aside, then faces a duel after revealing the Prince’s affair with Thekla; surviving the duel earns Schippel acceptance into the middle class.
Former cavalry general Traugott von Beeskow plots to destroy the manuscript of his former comrade Ago, who has returned from Russian imprisonment with new political ideas and still loves Traugott’s daughter Ursula. Ursula’s father drives her to betray Ago, but she instead burns the manuscript and embraces him; Traugott shoots them both.
A farcical send-up of bourgeois snobbery and conformity, adapted from Carl Sternheim's Die Hose.
When a quartet’s tenor dies shortly before a music festival, the members recruit Paul Schippel, a socially disdained clarinet player with an exceptional singing voice. He wins the contest but is cast aside, then faces a duel after revealing the Prince’s affair with Thekla; surviving the duel earns Schippel acceptance into the middle class.
Former cavalry general Traugott von Beeskow plots to destroy the manuscript of his former comrade Ago, who has returned from Russian imprisonment with new political ideas and still loves Traugott’s daughter Ursula. Ursula’s father drives her to betray Ago, but she instead burns the manuscript and embraces him; Traugott shoots them both.
A farcical send-up of bourgeois snobbery and conformity, adapted from Carl Sternheim's Die Hose.