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...
as Balduin, Student
as Lyduschka, Blumenmädchen
as Reichsgraf von Schwarzenberg
as Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter
as Freiherr von Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Verlobter
as Scapinelli, Wucherer
as 1. Student
as 2. Student
