Austrian fantasy about a devil who bets 2 angels he can corrupt 3 men. He chooses a tailor, a carpenter and a cobbler, who all have recently lost their jobs. They meet by accident and buy a lottery ticket that wins. The tailor goes to Paris and gets bilked out of his money trying to become an aristocrat so he can marry a woman by buying a title, a castle and finally losing all his money in the stock market. The cobbler, who was an alcoholic to begin with, buys a tavern and spends his days with a telescope waiting for a comet to hit the Earth while his customers drink up the profits. The only one of the three to not be tempted was the carpenter who keeps his winnings and offers to set up the others in business. The tailor accepts, but the cobbler decides to stay a drunk and goes off with Lumpaci the devil. Several songs are mixed into the plot. I would have enjoyed this better with better subtitles, but still not bad. I have a 1956 version which I will watch next year. 2.5/5
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