Ritter Blaubart

Summary

Film adaptation of a production of the opera "Ritter Blaubart" by Jaques Offenbach at the Komische Oper in Berlin. 

Knight Bluebeard, five times widower, is looking for his sixth wife. The chosen one is the beautiful and tough farmer's wife Boulotte, with whom he immediately marries. At the court of King Bobèche, Bluebeard wants to introduce his new wife. There he meets Hermia, the once abandoned and now re-united daughter of the king, who lived for years as shepherdess Fleurette. At the sight of her, he already rejects his marriage with Boulotte and is determined to make her his seventh wife. But Hermia has already been promised to a prince and Boulotte too must first suffer the same fate as her predecessors. 

So while Bluebeard once again commissions his henchman Popolani to murder his wife, Hermia resists her impending marriage to the prince, because she is still in love with the shepherd Saphir. The story takes an unexpected turn when Popolani reveals that he never killed the knight's other wives, but only hid them, and Hermia discovers that her fiancé is indeed the shepherd Saphir. In the banqueting hall of the royal castle, the decisive meeting of all involved takes place.