Overview
A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV. With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.
Director and cast
- Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius Director
- Gösta Ekman as Leonard Pettersson
- Nils Wahlbom as Casimir Löwencreutz
- Gull Natorp as Adèle Löwencreutz
- Birgit Tengroth as Marie-Louise Löwencreutz
- Håkan Westergren as Charles-Emile Spaak
- Olga Andersson as Countess Ehrencrona
- Åke Ohberg as Carl Henrik von Grimm
- Semmy Friedmann as Italian fireworks expert
- Theodor Berthels Cast
- Thor Modéen Cast
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