An unemployed artist must choose between a flower seller and a Hungarian dancer and defend himself against suspicion of shoplifting.

A girl from the city falls for a country lad, but his aunt has other plans for him.

An Austrian silent comedy crime film.

Film by Robert Land.

a movie by Karl Leiter

Vienna, Austria, late 1870s. After suffering an irreparable misfortune, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99), the Waltz King, falls in love with a ballet dancer, which disappoints the famous operetta singer Marie Geistinger…

Prussian King Frederick II was keen to hire the dancer Barberina, who had already enjoyed great success in Italy and England, for the Berlin opera house.

Critics of the time called "Milak, der Grönlandjäger" the German answer to Robert Flaherty’s "Nanook of the North" (1922). Filmed largely on location in Greenland and Norway’s Spitsbergen archipelago, the film combines impressive landscape footage with ethnographic observation.