Theater director Falke, dressed as a bat, ends up in prison after a merry carnival night. Director Frank only releases him after some time. Falke decides to take revenge on his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein, to whom he owes the whole affair. The annual masked ball at Prince Orlofsky's provides the opportunity. Falke stages a game of mistaken identity in which Eisenstein does not recognize his own wife and courts her, while maid Adele appears as the countess. Eisenstein is duped, Falke has taken his revenge.
as Rosalinde Eisenstein
as Herbert Eisenstein
as Theaterdirektor Michael Falke
as Adele
as Gefängnisdirektor Frank
as Tenor Alfred Melzer
as Frosch
as Prinz Orlowsky
as Inspektor
as Office writer I.T. prison
as Cook at Eisensteins
