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In Berlin and nearby Knötteritz, silent-film producer and actor Adalbert Musenfett hopes to cast himself as Napoleon in a film about the Battle of Leipzig. The farce also involves an Italian tragedienne and a tobacco-miller’s daughter who is meant to play his love interest.
Winifred disguises herself as a boy to join film producer Max Daly’s production of a Napoleon film. When Max falls for Italian actress Maria Gesticulata, Winifred mistranslates his love letter and Maria quits. Winifred takes Maria’s role, and Max does not discover that she is a girl until after the film is screened.
In Berlin and nearby Knötteritz, silent-film producer and actor Adalbert Musenfett hopes to cast himself as Napoleon in a film about the Battle of Leipzig. The farce also involves an Italian tragedienne and a tobacco-miller’s daughter who is meant to play his love interest.
Winifred disguises herself as a boy to join film producer Max Daly’s production of a Napoleon film. When Max falls for Italian actress Maria Gesticulata, Winifred mistranslates his love letter and Maria quits. Winifred takes Maria’s role, and Max does not discover that she is a girl until after the film is screened.