69 minutes
12/19/1918
A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences. This film survives in incomplete/fragmentary form.
Wilhelm Diegelmann
as Bürgermeister (Mayor)
Elsa Wagner
as Frau des Bürgermeisters (Mayor's Wife)
Lyda Salmonova
as Ursula, Tochter des Bürgermeisters (Mayor's Daughter)
Märte Rassow
as Märte
Jakob Tiedtke
as Ratsapotheker (Council Pharmacist)
Armin Schweizer
as Magerer Ratsherr (Skinny Councilor)
Paul Wegener
as Fahrender Spielmann (Traveling Minstrel)
Clemens Kaufung
as Schinderknecht
Hans Sturm
as Henker (Hangman)