In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack. Together with a young girl who worked in the bakery of Dagmar's parents they escape to Bavaria and find shelter at some far relatives of Dagmar's family. The little girl just doesn't feel comfortable in the strange family but soon finds a good friend: Laurent, a 17-year old French alien employee. Laurent is tormented by August, the "head of the family", but cannot defend himself because as soon as he causes a conflict he will be sent into an approved school in France which is even worse. Dagmar and Laurent become very close and become almost like brother and sister, they are all they have and Dagmar even falls a bit in love with Laurent. One day August sees how Laurent hugs Dagmar, he provokes a conflict and at the end Laurent is sent back to France...
The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
Arnaud Gensac, unlucky inspector, loses his police card, which falls into the hands of a graphic designer who witnesses the murder of a kingpin. And serious trouble begins for Arnaud.
독일어를 모국어처럼 유창하게 구사하는 미모의 처녀 린다는 얼음처럼 차거운 사나이 리랜드의 비서로 일하게 된다. 눈치빠른 린다는 리랜드가 회사 중역을 가장한 첩보요원임을 알게 되고, 두사람은 연인 관계로 발전한다. 진주만 기습을 계기로 미국이 본격적으로 전쟁에 개입하게 되자 리랜드는 원래의 신분인 국방부 대령으로 돌아가 해외 첩보공작을 맡는다. 독일에서 비밀 신무기가 개발되고 있다는 정보가 입수되고, 그 비밀 공장 위치를 추적하던 요원이 살해되자, 린다는 반대하는 리랜드를 설득, 스파이의 기본 훈련도 받지 않은 채 독일에 투입된다. 비밀무기 개발 책임자 디트리히 장군집의 보모로 들어간 린다는 연합군이 애타게 기다리던 비밀무기에 대한 정보를 마이크로 필름에 담아서 도망쳐 나오지만 믿었던 독일처녀 마그레트의 배신으로 총에 맞아 부상당한다. 리랜드는 독일장교로 위장하고 베를린으로 침투하여 린다를 찾아내고 스위스로 데리고 나간다. 스위스 국경에서 독일군 검문에 걸려 총격전을 벌리면서 린다를 안고 탈출하던 리랜드는 적의 총에 맞아 쓰러지면서도 스위스 국경을 넘는데 성공한다.
After spending three years doing field installation work in West Africa, Fred returns home to his old neighbourhood, an industrial region on the outskirts of a major city. He is filled with confidence and optimism for a new start. He has brought home with him a pile of money that he made in Africa. But he never wrote to his wife Rita. He only wired her a money transfer every month. In the meantime, Rita has a new life that she now shares with a GI. Fred rents a room in the "Royal", a sleazy hotel. There, he meets Alma, who takes care of the rooms and the guests and who is being kept by her sugar daddy - the aging hotel director. A passionate encounter with his old girlfriend Vera, who had high hopes for the two of them at some earlier time, dissipates into a brief carnal episode
