El cónsul sueco Raoul Nordling está muy preocupado a medida que sube la escalera secreta que conduce a la suite del hotel Meurice en que se aloja el general von Choltitz: el gobernador alemán de París es el último de un linaje de militares prusianos que no tienen ninguna duda a la hora de obedecer a sus superiores. El cónsul hará uso de todas sus armas diplomáticas para tratar de convencer al general de no ejecutar la orden de activar los explosivos que pueblan los bajos de los principales monumentos de la capital francesa: el Louvre, Notre-Dame, la torre Eiffel…
A Greek father, estranged from his German wife, kidnaps his daughter from her busy career mother in Berlin, and brings her home to live with his family. An international custody battle follows.
The merchant's daughter Constanze, begs her father to ask a lion for a favor. Her father approaches the lion who agrees to his request with one condition: that he send the first person he meets upon his return home to the lion's den. It is Constanze. Against her father's will she goes to the lion and discovers that he is an enchanged prince and that only a woman's love can release him from the spell.
In an enchanted forest, the princely brothers Michael and Andreas get lost and are transformed, by a mountain spirit who jealously guards his underground treasure, into animals until the unlikely event of sincere love from a human. The only persons who may be able to give such love are the local commoner sisters Snow-white and Rose-red, who are kind and helpful by nature and stand to harvest unimagined rewards.
