Kasperl is arrested after breaking into the gardens of the cruel Sultan Schurimuri. Schurimuri wants to have him executed for spying, but Kasperl poses as an important guest and ends up being royally received in the sultan's kitchen. Drunk, he admits that he is not a scholar or a traveller, but simply Kasperl. Schurimuri wants to have him executed again, but Kasperl beats and kills him. He then takes his place and especially the turban of the Sultan, which he promises will be of great use for him when he returns to Germany.

Not specified

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Turkey

Despotism

Cruelty

Pipe

Black

Orientalism

Hunger

Wine

Muslim

Turban

Beer

Botany

Seraglio

Music

Comical

Farcical

Burlesque

German

Ein grausames Lustspiel

Sultan

Slave

Geôlier

Kasperl

Lazzi

Word for another

Song

Chorus

Blow-with-a-stick

Casperl in der Türkei

Kasperl in Turkey

Catalysterium, a fake doctor, breaks into the Niflanguille's house and diagnoses the couple and their servant with a supposedly fatal disease. He asks them to stay in bed, eats their food and prescribes very expensive medicines (in fact water) to rob them. Mr. Niflanguille finds out about the scam and gets his money back. Cataclysterium is beaten by the Niflanguille and their servant and forced to take an oath to give up medicine forever.

Glove-puppet

All audiences

France

Paris

Duranty Louis Émile Edmond

False doctor

Medicine

Illness

Health

Medicines

Brandy

Swindler

Punishment

Money

Satire of medicine

Parody of medical language

Syringe

Satirical

French

Niflanguille

Domestic

Headbutt

Chase

Les Drogues de Cataclysterium

Cataclysterium's Drugs

A wealthy baker chef asks his cousin the apothecary to help him poison Pierrot, who is constantly robbing and assaulting him. When this plan fails, he sends his dog after the thief, but Pierrot kills the dog. Knowing that Pierrot has always wanted to learn pastry-making, the baker pretends to take him on as an apprentice to get revenge. But Pierrot plays many tricks. The gendarme, who has come to arrest him, is swindled, then hanged in the villain's place. Pierrot kills the baker and the apothecary, as a worthy disciple of Polichinelle.

Pastry

Theft

Wickedness

Poison

Learning

Hanging

Revenge

Criminal

Perseverance in Evil

Cruelty to an animal

Death of the dog

Fighting an animal

Pierrot

Pastry chef

Apothecary

Gendarme

Fight with an animal

Back Stroke

Hanging scene

Pierrot et le pâtissier

Pierrot and the baker

Pierrot is harassing his rich neighbour Mrs Trifouillon to get her to marry him. He locks her out of her house, then hides in her wardrobe. He beats her, breaks her dishes, throws her furniture in the street and deprives her of food and rest to make her give in. They fight, then she goes out to find a gendarme. When the gendarme arrives, Pierrot mistakes him for Mrs Trifouillon and pretends to marry him. Then Pierrot beats the Gendarme and throws him out. He finds Mrs Trifouillon's piggy bank, but she manages to take it back. Under threat, she agrees to marry Pierrot, who beats her to the rhythm of a wedding song that she is forced to hum while dancing.

Animated object

Silver wedding

Harassment

Cipidity

Piggy bank

Blackmail

Forced marriage

Violence

Threat

Battered woman

Monologue

Misunderstanding

Beating with a broom

Hidden character

Ambush

Off-stage voices

Stone throwing

Aside

Throwing objects

Liquid spray

Final song

Running gag

Le Mariage de raison

The Marriage of reason

Polichinelle has married the rich mother Gigogne, but he beats her children or gives them away in payment of his own debts. Grigogne complains to his cousin Niflanguille and gives him his bag of money. Polichinelle takes it to buy a horse. But the Maquignon sells him a dangerous horse and steals the money bag. Niflanguille accuses Polichinelle of the theft; mother Gigogne wants to beat her husband, but it is Niflanguille who gets the blows. Gigogne promises her husband more money if he behaves like a father to his children. But as soon as a child refuses to eat, Polichinelle kills him and throws him out of the window. Gigogne wants to punish Polichinelle, so he kills her, Niflanguille and a magician. The surviving children attack Polichinelle who chases them away. The Devil arrives and takes Polichinelle away.

Debt

Bag of money

Child

Horse

Bad father

Bad husband

Large family

Polichinelle

Mother Gigogne

Horse trader

Pork butcher

Arlecchino

Magician

Baby doll

Devil

Final intervention of the devil

Character thrown out of the scene

Polichinelle et la Mère Gigogne

Polichinelle and Mother Grignon

Don Juan overhears a conversation between Amarillis and Don Philippo, who agree to a romantic rendezvous. He sets out to kidnap Amarillis, when her father, Don Pietro, appears. Don Juan stabs him, and then robs his relative Don Alvaro Pantolfius, before fleeing Seville with his servant Schängche. The latter, tormented by a devil, is carried into the air on a giant sausage. After a shipwreck in which Schängche is swallowed and then spat out by a whale, the two fugitives wander through the woods. They meet a hermit, who, under threat, lends Don Juan a suit to disguise himself. Lost in the forest, Amarillis meets Schängche's fiancée, the innkeeper Greta de la Rosa. Don Juan finds the two women and tries to seduce them, but Don Philippo finds him in the meantime. Don Juan murders him. Schängche still has to fight a monster they meet in the forest. They arrive by chance at Greta's inn, where Don Juan seduces the bride of a wedding that has just taken place. At the cemetery, he invites the statue of Don Pietro to supper, who accepts his invitation. But Don Juan refuses to repent and is damned. Schängche, on the other hand, marries Greta.