12-year-old Jakob helps out at his mother's vegetable stand and also carries customers' purchased goods home. One day, an old woman with a long nose comes to the stand and claims that the herbs are bad and were better 50 years ago. Jakob is upset that she holds all the herbs to her nose and crushes them: "Take it away from your long nose!" he shouts and hits her hand. "Don't you like it, my beautiful long nose?" the woman scoffs, "You should have one too, even longer than mine." Finally, she buys some cabbages, which she wants Jakob to carry home for her. Jakob resists but is persuaded by his mother. Other market women whisper whether the old woman is not the evil fairy Kräuterweis.
Hans Clarin
as Fürst
Hans Elwenspoek
as Oberküchenmeister
Diemut Gerstorfer
as Mimi
Hans Dieter Götz
as Kleiner Jakob
Wolfgang Eichberger
as Fürst
Heini Göbel
as
Richard Krüger
as
Alfred Pongratz
as Hauptmann
Edith Schultze-Westrum
as Jakobs Mutter
Elinor von Wallerstein
as
Ernst Rotmund
as Herzog
