For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

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Cast

Conrad Veidt

Balduin, Student

Elizza La Porta

Lyduschka, Blumenmädchen

Fritz Alberti

Reichsgraf von Schwarzenberg

Agnes Esterhazy

Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter

Ferdinand von Alten

Freiherr von Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Verlobter

Werner Krauss

Scapinelli, Wucherer