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Film Die Fledermaus 1962 'Die Fledermaus' is a film adaptation shot in Austria under the direction of Géza von Cziffra Géza, based on the Johann Strauss operetta of the same name. Actors: Peter Alexander: Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein Marianne Koch: Rosalinde Marika Rökk: Adele Willy Millowitsch: Frank Gunther Philipp: Pista von Bundassy Boy Gobert: Prince Orlofsky Hans Moser: Frog Oskar Sima: Basil Arabayam Susi Nicoletti: Baroness Martens Rolf Kutschera: Alfred Rudolf Carl: Servant Josef CW Fernbach: Prisoner Ellen Umlauf: Prisoner Johannes Roth: Fat Vagabond Plot: Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein, legal counsel at Arabayam & Co., must serve an eight-day sentence in the district prison in Grinzing for insulting an official. At the same time, however, he is supposed to attend Prince Orlofsky's ball for his employer Basil Arabayam in the guise of Marquis Renard with a fictitious wife. The woman in question is supposed to persuade the prince to give her oil-rich lands in Bakutin on the Black Sea, which are to be passed on to Arabayam immediately. Pista von Bundassy, a friend of Eisenstein, gets the necessary tickets and claims to have obtained a one-day reprieve for Eisenstein so that he can attend the ball. Since he wants to take revenge on Eisenstein for a prank -- Eisenstein once left Pista to his fate in a bat costume in Vienna's city park -- he forces Eisenstein to pass off Adele, his wife's chambermaid, as his wife during the ball. Instead of Eisenstein, Alfred, Adele's lover, is found at the Eisensteins' front door, is personally arrested by the Grinzing prison director and taken to prison by police. Prison director Frank also has an invitation to Prince Orlofsky's farewell ball under the false name Chevalier Chargrin. Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde notices her husband's deception and appears at the ball disguised as her own twin sister Sonja, whom the prince already knows. When Eisenstein comes face to face with the supposed Sonja, he fears for his marriage and arranges an intimate meeting between Rosalinde and the prince. The next day Rosalinde reveals herself to her husband. The inevitable marital dispute is followed by reconciliation. Prince Orlofsky gives Rosalinde 1000 hectares of land, but keeps the oil production rights.