Playwright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in Paris, the story revolves around Princess Tatiana (Irene de Zilaby) and General Mikail (Andre Lefaur), two members of the Russian nobility who'd been forced to relocate to France after the Revolution. Though the regal couple has been entrusted with the Imperial crown jewels, they'd sooner starve to death than betray the late Czar by selling the gems. As a result, they're reduced to taking jobs as servants in the home of a wealthy but somewhat zany family. Robert E. Sherwood's Americanized version of Deval's Tovaritch was filmed by Warner Bros. in 1937, with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.

Le général Ouratieff et sa femme Tatiana, quinze ans après la révolution soviétique, sont réfugiés à Paris. Ruiné, le couple travaille pour les Arbeziah comme valets, le général refusant de toucher à l'importante somme d'argent déposée à la Banque de France que lui a confié le tsar russe. Quand Monsieur Arbeziah, en relation d'affaires avec le gouvernement soviétique, reçoit à dîner l'un des responsables de la Banque de France, le couple Ouratieff s'invite à la fête...