Elsa Bassermann

In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.

Cuando la científica polaca Maria Sklodowska (1867-1934) se casó con Pierre Curie, ambos trabajaron juntos en experimentos que les permitieron aislar dos nuevos elementos químicos: el polonio y el radio. Los dos fueron galardonados con el Premio Nobel de Física en 1903. Después de la muerte de Pierre, Marie Curie prosiguió sola sus investigaciones y, además, fue la primera mujer que ocupó una cátedra en la Universidad de París. En 1911 recibió el Premio Nobel de Química.

1938. Un joven llega a la Alemania de Hitler, busca frenéticamente información acerca de su madre alemana y descubre que está pendiente de ejecución en un campo de concentración.

A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.

Toni van Eyck became known with her leading role in this early "Aufklärungsfilm" (education film) Gefahren der Liebe/A Woman Branded (Eugen Thiele, 1931) opposite Hans Stüwe. She played a rape victim, who finally becomes a murderess.

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.

A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.

A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.

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