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Based on a popular stage musical comedy by Károly Bakonyi and Andor Gábor, the film tells the story of a young engineer who tries to construct a railway in his hometown, helped by the Count's daughter, Marcsa (Lili Berky).
In the story, Ivan Baracs seeks revenge by shaming his noble friends. He dresses his groom, Misha, in a tailscoat and introduces him into society as Count Tasziló. Mishka's fiancée, Marchesa, the dishwasher girl with the palms of her hands, becomes Countess Mary... The interesting thing about Mishka the Magician is that it is one of the rare pieces of operetta literature in which the dancer-comedian and the sub-radio play the leading roles.
The story takes place during the Third Reich, in the autumn of 1933, when the world's attention was focused on the Leipzig lawsuit. The main character is dr. Winnicke (played by Gyula Benkő); a young German doctor is commissioned by Count Hellwitz, an SA officer who was once a classmate, to “make” one of the participants in the lawsuit fit for Nazi purposes.
Baracs Pista, engineer at the construction site of a railway line near the Korláthy estate, falls in love with Rolla, a countess disguised as a peasant girl. The count is giving a party as he wants the railway line to go across his lands.
A heavily indebted schoolteacher raising two marriageable daughters is buoyed by rumors that his long-lost uncle in America is a millionaire, until the uncle’s unexpected arrival in poverty sparks a rush of creditors, patrons and fortune-seekers. Ambitious lawyer Jenő Szekeres orchestrates the deception so that the family, the town and himself profit from the false fortune, and even when the truth comes out, everyone, including Szekeres, now eyeing a political career, chooses to uphold the lie.
Rolla, the Count's daughter, meets István Baracs, a railway engineer, at the village fair and they become very fond of each other. Of course, the count's family would never agree to the marriage, they would only let a noble groom into their house. However, the engineer's valet, Miksa, and the Count's butler, Marcsa, really know how to settle affairs of the heart.
