A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
Emil Jannings
as Harun al Raschid
Conrad Veidt
as Ivan the Terrible
William Dieterle
as The Poet / Assad the Baker / Russian Prince
Werner Krauß
as Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack
Olga Belajeff
as Eva-Maimune-Eine Bojarin
John Gottowt
as Owner of the Waxworks
Georg John
as Owner of the Panoptikums
Ernst Legal
as Poison-Maker of the Czar
Paul Biensfeldt
as Grand Vizier
