A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
as Catherine II
as Le baron de Kempelen
as Le prince Serge Oblonsky
as Sonia Vorowska
as Le prince Boleslas Vorowsky
as Potemkine
as Stanislas
as Wanda Zalewska