86 minutes
11/30/1938
Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.
Gustaf Gründgens
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
Sybille Schmitz
as Gräfin Héloise Cambouilly
Gisela Uhlen
as Angèle Destouches
Theo Lingen
as Graf Cambouilly
Paul Bildt
as Mönch
Hilde Hildebrand
as Gräfin X
Ralph Arthur Roberts
as König Karl X.
Hans Leibelt
as Prinz Louis Philippe
Will Dohm
as Theaterdirektor Pomponille
Gretl Theimer
as Schirmverkäuferin
Walter Werner
Ernst Legal
Erich Ziegel
Elsa Wagner
Hadrian Maria Netto
Wolf Trutz
Franz Nicklisch
Ernst Dernburg