Prussia is on the brink of national bankruptcy. King Frederick William III unexpectedly appoints the tax official Christian Rother as President of the Royal Prussian Maritime Trade.
Christian Rother
Baron von Globsoe
Friedrich Wilhelm III.
Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
Graf von Wittgenstein
August Friedrich Kayser
Narrator
Elise
Leopold von Gerlach
August Friedrich Bloch
Ernst-Ludwig von Gerlach
Hinz