Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.
A military wife remarries after she thinks her Russian husband has died in battle, and when he returns alive he enlists in the Foreign Legion rather than disrupt her new happiness.
의 2부로 크림힐트가 훈족의 여왕이 되어 지그프리트의 복수를 하는 과정을 그리고 있다. 크림힐트는 지그프리트를 죽인 하겐과 브룬힐트 일족을 자기 성으로 끌어 들여 피 어린 복수전을 시작한다. 1922년부터 23년까지 9개월간 UFA의 바벨스부르크 스튜디오에서 제작된 이 영화는 당시 1,2부로 나누어 양일에 걸쳐 개봉되어 큰 성공을 거두었다. 이전작품과 다른 대작을 연출해야 했던 프리츠 랑 감독은 아내인 테아 폰 하르보와 촬영감독 칼 호프만, 예술감독 오토 훈테, 칼 폴브레히트와 독일 특유의 감성어린 웅장하고 비극적인 걸작을 만들었다. 상징주의와 독일 표현주의 양식이 드러난 이 영화는 에이젠슈타인의 에 영향을 끼쳤다고 한다.
네덜란드의 왕자 지그프리트는 군터 왕을 만나러 가던 중 거대한 용을 만난다. 용을 무찌른 지그프리트는 용의 피를 뒤집어 쓰고 불사신이 되고, 난쟁이의 도깨비 감투도 손에 넣는다. 이후 군터 왕을 만난 지그프리트는 그의 여동생 크림힐트와의 결혼을 요청하고, 군터는 자신이 아이슬랜드의 여왕 브룬힐트와 결혼할 수 있도록 도와주면 결혼을 허락하겠노라고 한다. 브룬힐트와 결혼하기 위해서는 그녀와의 대결에서 이겨야만 했는데, 군터는 지그프리트의 힘을 이용한 것이다. 대결에서 이긴 군터는 브룬힐트와 결혼하고 지그프리트와 크림힐트도 결혼하지만, 속임수로 자신을 이겼음을 알게 된 브룬힐트는 크게 분노하고 지그프리트를 죽일 음모를 꾸민다.
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
