As Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of romantic misadventures. But she manages to show up on stage at the appointed time, scoring a huge success.
Acting
Zarah Leander's smoldering presence commands every frame she devastates.
Costume
1930s stage wardrobe that drips with theatrical excess and deadly elegance.

Director
Géza von Bolváry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zarah Leander became Nazi Germany's biggest film star after this, a complicated legacy that shadows her early work.
Director Géza von Bolváry fled Hungary's political turmoil multiple times; this German production was one of his many exiles.