The Beggar Student (1956 film)
The Beggar Student is a 1956 () West German musical film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Gerhard Riedmann, Waltraut Haas and Elma Karlowa. It is based on the operetta "Der Bettelstudent" by Karl Millöcker, and is part of the operetta film tradition. The film's sets were designed by the art director Felix Smetana. Synopsis. After a Polish aristocrat refuses to marry a Colonel, he manoeuvres to force her to marry a penniless student in revenge.