Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

Martine Carol
as Lola Montes

Peter Ustinov
as Circus Master

Anton Walbrook
as King Ludwig I of Bavaria

Henri Guisol
as Horsema Maurice

Lise Delamare
as Lola's Mother

Paulette Dubost
as Josephine, The Maid

Oskar Werner
as Student

Jean Galland
as Private Secretary

Will Quadflieg
as Franz Liszt

Héléna Manson
as Lieutenant James' Sister