Mrs Kasperl comes to ask her husband for money when Kasperl finds a cook to whom he has promised to marry her and who has just brought him a sausage and some wine. The two women argue with Kasperl and start fighting. Kasperl knocks them both out and locks them in a chest. Alerted by the noise, the night watchman comes to question him. Kasperl explains to him that the two women had a quarrel over some plums inside the chest, offers some to the watchman and closes the lid on the unfortunate man who has put his head in it. Then he leaves, announcing that he will throw the chest into the water...

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Reinhardt Carl

Germany

Munich

Printed

Sausage

Wine

Woman

Shrew

Couple

Household

Married life

Kitchen

Glutton

Plums

Quarrel

Unfaithfulness

Comical

Farcical

Satirical

Grotesque

German

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Night watchman

Blow-with-a-stick

Argument

Domestic scene

Frau Kasperl und die Köchin

Mrs Kasperl and the cook

Clotilde wants to follow her husband everywhere he goes. When he sets off for Madagascar with his battalion, she embarks on the ship on a bicycle. Her parents send Guignol – their servant – after her. To arrive in Madagascar before Clotilde does, Guignol invents a flying machine, which combines a hot-air ballon and a bicycle, led by a pigeon. In Madagascar, Maxime fails to convince his wife to return to France. Guignol, who has been brought inside the camp, relates that his machine has frightened the Hovas, allowing him to make it safely to the camp. He leaves in search of two missing sentries. Clotilde decides to go with him, and they are both captured by the Hovas. In Tananarive, the queen of Madagascar stands firm against the French, but she fears that they will bomb the city. Maxime has come to negotiate the surrender of Tananarive. When he hears that Clotilde and Guignol have been captured, the queen presents him with two options: either he modifies the terms of the peace agreement or Clotilde and Guignol are sentenced to death. Clotilde asks Maxime to prioritise the conquest of Tananarive over her life. Guignol convinces the queen to release him and Clotilde. Then the bombing of Tananarive forces the queen to surrender. Maxime reunites with his wife, who is safe and sound.