East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man appears and offers his help in exchange for Marie's necklace. The greedy treasurer makes Marie spin twice more until the only thing she has left to give the little man is the promise of her first-born child…

Karl-Heinz Rothin
as Müller Kunz

Karin Lesch
as Müllerstochter Marie

Reinhard Michalke
as Müllerbursche Hans

Peter Dommisch
as Der einfältige Nachbar

Nikolaus Paryla
as König

Bodo Mette
as Schatzmeister

Siegfried Seibt
as Rumpelstilzchen

Franz Bonnet
as Torwächter

Hans Feldner
as Zweiter Bauer

Hans Flössel
as Erster Bauer