The Comedians

Although she is known as a patron of the arts a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten When Philine Hilde Krahl the troupes ingénue is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels Porten Karoline Neuber Dorsch creates such a furor that she is banished from the country A performance at the court at St Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all Karoline dies a suicide