Overview

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poison; the marriage is to be the "atonement" of the two poisoners. The four allegorical personifications in this comedy are, in addition to the loveless, absolute justice in the form of the prosecutor Mississippi, perfect equality, represented by the world revolutionary Saint-Claude, Christian love, embodied in the down-and-out, alcoholic tropical doctor Count Uebelohe-Zabernsee, and finally the "Frau Welt" of the old mystery play – Anastasia, who falls for everyone and betrays everyone, loves nothing but the moment, and dies with an invoked untruth on her lips.

Top Cast

O.E. Hasse

Florestan Mississippi

Johanna von Koczian

Anastasia

Martin Held

Frédéric René Saint-Claude

Hansjörg Felmy

Graf Bodo von Überlohe-Zabernsee

Charles Regnier

Sir Thomas Jones

Edith Hancke

Lukretia

Max Haufler

van Bosch

Karl Lieffen

Santamaria

Ruedi Walter

McGoy

H

Herbert Weißbach

Finanzminister

Gudrun Genest

Kanzlistin

Tilo von Berlepsch

Außenminister