The prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, younger brother of the Earl of Burlesdon and a distant cousin of Rudolf V, The new King of Ruritania. Rassendyll is a peace-loving English gentleman who goes to Ruritania on a secret visit. By a strange quirk of fate, he happens to look like Rudolf V, the real heir to the throne of Ruritania. Rudolf V is imprisoned in the Castle of Zenda by Black Michael, the evil Duke of Strelsau. Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates as Rudolf V and is coronated. He falls in love with a beautiful princess, but being duty-bound, he draws up a plan to free the real King from the clutches of Black Michael and restores him his kingdom.....
