Overview

In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the envoys of Austria, Russia and France with the aim of conspiring against the Prussian King Frederick II. The Prussian envoy, Major von Lindeneck, succeeded in bringing a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king. Friedrich consults with his generals, who urge caution. Friedrich is stunned by the reaction and now develops a counter-plan. To do this, he sends von Lindeneck back to Dresden. However, the latter is not very enthusiastic about this, as he thinks he has reason to doubt his wife Blanche's marital fidelity, and he now has to leave her alone.

Top Cast

Otto Gebühr

King Frederick II

Renate Müller

Blanche von Lindeneck

Hans Brausewetter

Korrespondent

Attila Hörbiger

Zweiter Kurier

Theo Lingen

Kent

Hubert von Meyerinck

Attché

Heinrich Gretler

Grenzjäger

Raoul Aslan

Reichsgraf Heinrich von Brühl

Hans Rehmann

Major von Lindeneck

Walter Janssen

Maltzahn, Preußischer Gesandter in Dresden

Friedrich Kayssler

Karl Wilhelm von Finckenstein

Carl Goetz

Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf