A 1931 farce where marital suspicion becomes chaotic performance art.
When Julius Seipold's wife Regine becomes suspicious that he is having an affair after discovering incriminating evidence, Julius manages to convince her that it is his innocuous assistant Max who is having a relationship.
Acting
Sig Arno's panicked physicality as the sacrificed assistant.
Direction
Dual directors keeping farce machinery perfectly oiled.
Director
Andrew Marton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andrew Marton later escaped Nazi Germany and became a Hollywood second-unit director on epics like Ben-Hur and Cleopatra.
This rare surviving German farce captures Weimar-era comedy before censorship tightened—notice how much marital suspicion the Hays Code would later forbid.
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