Tells of the tribulations of a middle-aged official of the Austro-Hungarian Bureau of Weights and Measures in fighting the local shopkeepers and traders whose weights are frequently light.
Helmut Qualtinger
as Anselm Eibenschütz
Agnes Fink
as Regina Eibenschütz
Velimir Živojinović
as Leibusch Jadlowker
Evelyn Opela
as Euphemia Nikitsch
Kurt Sowinetz
as Kapturak
Anna Báró
as Rosa Kapturak
István Iglódi
as Josef Nowak
Johannes Schaaf
as Slama
Rudolf Strobl
as Piotrak
Manyi Kiss
as Soscha Szaczkes
Sándor Siménfalvy
as Onufrij
Ladislaus Ferencz
as First Mortgagee