The Prince of Pilsen

In the height of the roaring twenties, Hans Wagner, a boisterous and nouveau-riche Cincinnati brewer, decamps to the French Riviera with his daughter Nellie in search of social elevation. Through a series of increasingly absurd coincidences, the local populace mistakes the bumbling beer magnate for the actual Prince of Pilsen. Rather than correcting the error, Wagner leans into the facade, leading to a frantic collision of American industrialist pragmatism and the rigid, fading protocols of European aristocracy. The narrative serves as a vessel for social satire, pitting the 'new money' energy of the United States against the 'old world' pretensions of the continent, all while a genuine romance blooms amidst the smoke and mirrors of mistaken identity.