Alte Barbara
Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...
Un famoso músico y director de orquesta adopta a un niño que había sido abandonado por sus padres en un orfelinato. Una mujer, que acaba de regresar de los Estados Unidos, solicita el puesto de institutriz en la casa. Esa mujer resulta ser la madre del niño.
