During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the Emperor. The tailor manages to get out of this by paying off a friend to go to prison in his place. But then, the "phony" prisoner suddenly dies in his cell and everyone now thinks Wibbel is dead.
Erich Ponto
Fita Benkhoff
Irene von Meyendorff
Friedrich Benfer
Günther Lüders
Hubert von Meyerinck
Lotte Rausch
S.O. Schoening
Theo Lucas
Ludwig Schmitz
Albert Florath
Eva Tinschmann
Paul Heidemann
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Maria Krahn
Hans Hemes
Walter Lieck
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Wolfgang Dohnberg
Robert Forsch
Artur Malkowsky
Albert Probeck
Max Wilmsen
Christine von Trümbach
Boris Alekin
Else Beyer-Andrae
Elsa Dalands
Jac Diehl
Karl Heitmann
Hilde Munsch
Gerda Peter
Lucie Polzin
Ilse Pütz
Paul Rehkopf
Marga Riffa
Theodor Thony
Auguste Wanner-Kirsch
Franz Weber