The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in the West and Gustav in the East. The East German police catch on quickly, however, and Gustav is arrested. The small band of smugglers disperses, with Gustav’s chauffer Peter Naumann fleeing to the West and his sister choosing the East after struggling to find work and lodging in the West.
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All sorts of crooked deals contribute to the improvement of the daily menu and the increase of household funds. When everyone is searching for pensioner Krueger's missing beaverskin coat, Mother Wolffen and her family are calmly enjoying fresh roast venison.
Vorsitzender im Gericht
Kapitän der „Poseidon“
Adaptation of Seeliger's novel, starting production in 1943, finished by DEFA studios after the war.
The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.
Estamos en la Alemania nazi, pero sin casi referencias políticas salvo que las ambientaciones de ciertos números musicales están localizadas en Italia, España y Japón. Cuenta la historia de una artista de variedades que triunfa con sus obras musicales, donde canta y levanta pierna con mucha habilidad. Cansada de tanta gira huye de su manager en tren. Por casualidad queda atrapada en una estación alpina en pleno invierno, donde conocerá a dos ingenieros que trabajan en un nuevo trazado del ferrocarril. Uno de ellos suspira por una mujer a la antigua, el otro por una mujer a la moderna. ¿Con quién se quedará nuestra starlette?
Reinharts Diener
A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor.
Un esposo afligido intenta descubrir la verdad detrás del suicidio de su esposa, lo que lo lleva a descubrir una trágica historia de infidelidad y redención.
Lamberts Diener
A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
An exchanged suitcase and a burglary with an actress give occasions to whirl a family with daughters-in-law and brides hard in a mess. Old mistake comedy according to pattern.
Gesundbeter
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
Karl Rasmussens Freund
In the spring of 1905, the water conduit project in the Canadian city of Canitoga is set to be completed. For years, the completion had been marred by sabotage. Engineer Oliver Montstuart commands the last blasting operation. But again, the explosive charge is too large and thus, further construction is forestalled again. When Montstuart confronts foreman Westbrook, the foreman threatens him with a knife. In self-defence, Montstuart shoots him. Now, he has to flee.
Professor
Abteilungsleiter in der Firma Renier
