Kurt Gerber is attending his final class and gets into trouble with the math professor, a frustrated self-assured petty bourgeois sadist. The duel ends in catastrophe.
Peter Handke adaptó su propia novela para este film sobre un portero de fútbol que pierde súbitamente la concentración en medio de un partido y es expulsado del juego. Confundido, vaga por la ciudad sin saber dónde ir y termina realizando acciones sin mucha explicación ni sentido.
Un abogado estadounidense de vacaciones por Europa se le pregunta por un editor de libros al pasar por la ciudad austríaca de Salzburgo al ver a un fotógrafo que está tomando imágenes para un libro sobre pintorescos lagos austriacos. A su llegada siente que algo anda mal cuando el fotógrafo parece haber desaparecido, dejando casi en pánico a la esposa y un hermano con un siniestro secreto. Antes de que él lo sepa, el abogado se encuentra mezclado con espías, asesinos, y la búsqueda de una lista compuesta por los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial de las personas que colaboraban con ellos.
Josefine es una prostituta joven en Viena a finales del siglo 20. Se las arregla para conseguir su camino a la cima casandose con un aristócrata británico, y ella se complace en contar historias obscenas de su sórdido pasado a mojigatos moralistas.
During WWII The German 'Wehrmacht' is heavily under fire after the invasion of Normandy. There are also a lot of women participating in the war, working at the front line as couriers for the air force. In this war, everyday, they put their lives on the line.
Baron Siebenzell employs the young forest ranger Thomas Sebald, to stop the bold poachers he's plagued with in his beautiful mountain forests. Most of the men in the village reject and ridicule Thomas because of his job. Nevertheless he falls in love with the mayor's daughter Maria - not knowing, that her father is the poacher's leader.
Early 18th-century Krakow: The poor student Simon works as a travelling musician in order to finance his studies, and the Polish freedom fighter Jan is on the run from Saxon troops. They meet in the carriage of Count Kovalska, where they fall in love with the Count’s daughters Laura and Bronislava.
In the Dutch town of Saardam, Tsar Peter the Great has disguised himself in order to learn the art of ship-building. Another Russian named Peter also works at the wharf, causing a comical case of mistaken identities. Emissaries sent from France and England have difficulty locating the man they are looking for, and the lovely Marie is courted by both Peters. An adaptation of Albert Lortzing's eponymous comic opera (1837).
