Gerdago

Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, history is in the making. Gathered around the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I, the Kings of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Prussia and Denmark, are persuaded they are building the future Europe whereas they are being manipulated by foxy Chancellor Metternich, he himself under the thumb of cynical Count Talleyrand, the French representative. All those considerations come second though to partying and social life, which is all these aristocrats really want out of this congress.

Out of necessity, Gunther Philipp and his male colleagues put on women's clothes again and cause a commotion in the noble ski resort of Davos as the Jolly Sisters. Their girlfriends don't take kindly to this and counterattack in men's costumes.

Deeply disappointed by her bridegroom, Andrea flees from Bruggern to the south and experiences a beautiful "Romance in Venice". She falls in love with the boyish-charming pianist Stefan Schröder. But a misunderstanding leads to breakage. Andrea returns pregnant to Germany. Stefan signs a contract for America. And the years go by .

Sissi se muestra hábil no sólo con los asuntos de estado, sino también con Sofía, su conflictiva suegra, que aprovecha cualquier ocasión para inventar falsos romances entre Sissi y el conde Andrassy con el objetivo de romper el matrimonio entre la emperatriz y su hijo. A las amenazas de Sofía hay que añadir la grave enfermedad pulmonar que Sissi contrae en Hungría y que la llevará a Grecia, donde tras un tiempo la joven mejora felizmente de su enfermedad.

Tras su boda en Viena, Sissi empieza su nueva vida como Emperatriz de Austria, pero pronto la rigidez del protocolo se convierte para ella en un verdadero problema. Entre ella y Sofia, su suegra, nace un profundo resentimiento que estalla en el cumpleaños de la hija de Sissi: Sofia, apelando a una antigua tradición de la Corte, se opone a que la niña sea criada por su madre. Al final llegan a un acuerdo, por el que Sissi podrá educar a su hija si se compromete a cumplir sus obligaciones cortesanas.

Francisco José debe casarse y, aunque su madre ya ha pensado en Helena, una joven princesa bávara, el emperador se enamora perdidamente de Elizabeth (Sissi), una joven espontánea y poco convencional que detesta el protocolo de la Corte. A pesar de que su decisión no contará con la aprobación de su madre, el joven enamorado hará de su espléndida boda con Sissi la primera victoria en el frente familiar.

Procedente del campo, una joven llega a Viena para vivir con su tía, que es una panadera y entre sus clientes tiene a la Corte Imperial. Un día, paseando por la ciudad, se encuentra con Jurek, un joven oficial que prefiere la música al ejército. Ambos se enamoran y Jurek, inspirándose en ella, compone una marcha para el Emperador que muy pronto se hace popular entre los vieneses.

Sissi se muestra hábil no sólo con los asuntos de estado, sino también con Sofía, su conflictiva suegra, que aprovecha cualquier ocasión para inventar falsos romances entre Sissi y el conde Andrassy con el objetivo de romper el matrimonio entre la emperatriz y su hijo. A las amenazas de Sofía hay que añadir la grave enfermedad pulmonar que Sissi contrae en Hungría y que la llevará a Grecia, donde tras un tiempo la joven mejora felizmente de su enfermedad.

While working as an accountant in his uncle's factory, talented young pianist Peter dreams of becoming a famous composer. When he shows his work to a producer, he manages to convince him to give him a chance. From time to time he gets bigger contracts that keep him more and more away from home and his young wife Elisa. When he "discovers" and supports a pretty ballerina in Munich, a rumor starts that he's having an affair. He fails to realize that his marriage is threatened.

A biography of the eighteenth century Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.

In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an aspiring actor, a break.

1936 Austrian film.

A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.

British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.

After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.