Martin Berliner

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.

A group of criminals hijacks a plane, intending to fly it to Cuba.

1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.

Un pianista de concierto ha perdido la memoria, resultado de haber sido arrestado y torturado por los nazis durante la guerra por tocar una canción prohibida. Viaja a la isla de Guadalupe para intentar recuperar la memoria y la salud.

Tras la I Guerra Mundial, Franz no tiene ni familia ni lugar donde ir. Después de una década vagando por Europa con desánimo, se instalará definitivamente en Viena. En su primera noche en la ciudad, Franz salvará a una chica de morir ahogada, momento que retratará un rápido fotógrafo.