During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
| Directing | Steve Sekely | Director |
| Writing | Steve Sekely | Writer |
| Writing | Emeric Pressburger | Writer |
| Writing | Hans H. Zerlett | Writer |
| Art | Otto Erdmann | Art Direction |
| Directing | László Benedek | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Paul Dessau | Music |
| Art | Hans Sohnle | Art Direction |
| Sound | Friedrich Hollaender | Music |
| Camera | Mutz Greenbaum | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tihamer Varady | Costume Design |