The Thief of Bagdad (German: Die Diebin von Bagdad) is a 1952 West German musical comedy film directed by Karel Lamac and starring Theo Lingen, Paul Kemp, Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Beisenherz and Alfred Bütow.

In marriage, wife Suleika takes the dominant role and gives her husband so little money that he cannot even bribe the eunuchs who guard his harem.

He has just crossed the state border and is in an area where the king of the highwaymen, Achmed, is causing trouble.

A little later, Achmed attacks Ali and finds the supposed young woman he spontaneously wants to seduce.

Meanwhile, Achmed has assumed Ali's identity, as he wanted to get into the caliph's palace anyway to steal the state treasure.

He moves into Baghdad with his gang members Hadji and Ommar and feigns great interest in the elderly caliph.

In the end, it is Hadji who wants to find out the location of the state treasure from Suleika through intense flirting.

The guards recognize her as the thief, Achmed as the young woman he fell in love with in the desert outside Baghdad, and Caliph Omar as a potential new addition to his harem.

After the performance ends, Fatme is initially intercepted by Achmed, who is surprised that the young woman claims to have never seen him before.