In the nineteenth century a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, meets an Austrian Count at a ball held by one of her father's business associates. After he rescues her from the unwanted attentions of a Polish army officer, they fall in love.
Leontine Kühnberg
Judith Trachtenberg
Ernst Deutsch
Raphael Trachtenberg
Leonhard Haskel
Paul Otto
Hermann Vallentin
Margarete Kupfer
In the nineteenth century a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, meets an Austrian Count at a ball held by one of her father's business associates. After he rescues her from the unwanted attentions of a Polish army officer, they fall in love.
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