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Movie based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello.

"First Love" - Karsten, a college boy, oppressed to the point of suicide by harsh teachers, calls on the girl he loves Ellen. He finds her about to be raped by a seducer. Karsten shoots the attacker.

In order to help his friend Strampfl, whose inn "Zum silbernen Schwein" is failing as a result of the opposing competition, the musician Peperl, a young man who lives entirely in his music, places two advertisements in the city newspaper: a male millionaire is looking for a woman, a female millionaire is looking for a man. The meeting point is at the inn "Zum silbernen Schwein." Success comes, customers flock to Strampfl's inn from all sides. Among the latter is Princess Marie, who likes to go among people of the people, unrecognized. Here the princess meets Peperl and when he even plays his latest, self-composed waltz "Wienerwaldgeister", the princess has given her heart to Peperl and he, believing that he has a poor girl of the people in front of him, feels genuine, longing love germinating in him for the first time in his life. To the horror of the orchestra, Princess Marie now often meets with the "musician" - until one day her father, the old archduke, explains to her that she must marry the prince of the neighboring country. With a bleeding heart, she says goodbye to Peperl, who has no idea that he is about to lose his beloved forever. The next day, Peperl receives his appointment as a conductor. He should present himself at the orchestra on the same day. He happily sets off and meets the princess in the castle. Now he knows that everything is over. And then, after the wedding festivities, he has to conduct the wedding dance for "his" princess and her unloved husband. But when "Wienerwaldgeister" sounds, Peperl's strength is at an end. His musicians take the collapsed man out to the park. Here he sees the princess for the last time, he lets his violin sound a final farewell for her. Then the lights go out; Peperl remains alone with his suffering, while the princess mourns her lost happiness in the castle.

Petersen, Bunny and Slim, three tramps who have met after eluding the police, come by chance on a trunk full of smart clothes, and without a penny in their pockets, set forth in quest of adventure. Their first adventure is with the banker Richwald, whom Petersen impresses by which he thinks best fits with the clothes he is wearing- that of Vander Gould, the richest man in America. Richwald has been longing to meet Vander Gould to bring off a big business deal, so the thin three tramps are soon installed in a luxurious hotel with everything at their disposal. Petersen is addressed as the presence of an aristocratic gentleman who has a remarkably pretty daughter, and he learns that this is the Marquis D'Orsay, a nobleman with whom Vander Gould the millionaire had agreed on a matrimonial alliance between his son and the Marquis' daughter, Dora. Petersen is nothing loath to spend his time in the company of so charming a girl, with whom he sails to Cowes as the guest of the Marquis. Unfortunately, Petersen has quarreled with one of his companions, and Slim denounces him and Bunny as a pair of impostors. This interrupts Petersen's love-making for a time and even brings him and Bunny into contact with the Chief of Police at Naples. In fact there is a time when expected of having done away with the genuine Vander Gould and having hidden his body. Fortunately, after many surprising and most amusing developments, Petersen fully establishes his right to the Vander Gould millions, and the girl of his choice.

Eva Bennet, a young mysterious widow appears at Pension Sanssouci in Berlin during the Weimar era. She attracts a lot of attention from everybody, especially from Georg Raval.