Aurora Rumelin is happy because the noble writer Leopold Sacher-Masoch has asked for her hand. Little by little the marriage goes into crisis mainly because Leopold asks his wife to beat him before sexual relations and to treat him like a slave. Both spouses have lovers and, in the end, the marriage ends in divorce.
Leopold (Leopold von Sacher Masoch)
Wanda (Aurora Rumelin)
Alexander
Irina
Grunwald
Ulda
Armand
Staudenheim
Il Greco
Levatrice
Servo
(as Raoul Gelsini)
