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
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.
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