The Imaginary Baron

The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric nobleman. He and his antics are rapturously received by the members of a bourgeois family desperate to mingle with the aristocracy. The daughter of the family takes a fancy to the baron (in reality, merely a “joke baron”), assuming him to be immensely wealthy.

• Silent Cinema
• German Film
• Class Satire
• Period Farce
• Mistaken Identity
• Physical Comedy
• Whimsical Antics
• Bourgeois Critique
• Early Comedy
• Nostalgic