Die tolle Komteß (1928)
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Dina Gralla, Werner Fuetterer, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Hanni Weisse
A young woman is made to pose as a much younger schoolgirl, setting off a seaside farce of mistaken age and romantic complications.
The story
At the Baltic seaside resort of Swinemünde, matchmaker Max Schornstein hopes to marry the somewhat past-his-prime Count Justus von Hagenau to the widowed Countess Karla von Kesselstein. To make herself seem younger, the countess claims that Jutta, who is actually 18, is her daughter and five years younger than she really is. Jutta is therefore obliged to play a saucy, precocious 13-year-old schoolgirl. Her assumed age lets her get away with pranks, but the deception becomes increasingly complicated when young Count Walter, Hagenau’s nephew, falls in love with her.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The matchmaker Max Schornstein wants to marry the somewhat past-his-prime Count Justus von Hagenau to the widowed Countess Karla von Kesselstein at the Baltic seaside resort of Swinemünde. To seem not quite as old as she really is, Countess Kesselstein pretends that, instead of 18-year-old Jutta, she has a daughter who is five years younger. The young adult is thus condemned to spend the coming period playing a saucy, precocious 13-year-old schoolgirl. As expected, this leads to numerous complications. As the “wild little countess,” Jutta can get away with all sorts of pranks that would no longer be tolerated from her as a grown young lady. None of this, however, stops young Count Walter, the old Hagenau’s nephew, from falling in love with the supposedly 13-year-old, cheeky brat. In the end, after the truth has come to light, everything is happily resolved, as is customary in a farce, and young Count Walter gets his “wild little countess,” who in reality is long since of marriageable age herself.
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