Oskar Höcker

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...

After World War II, scores of refugees leave in search of a new home. They now stand in the hall of a large mansion, waiting to receive their deeds of ownership for sections of land that the lord of the manor had left behind after he fled. Among them is young Jeruscheit who, during her travels, had to bury one of her own children. Her husband has been declared missing, and up until now she has had little purpose in life. But then she discovers it: to work, to build, and to help others. And maybe someday Jeruscheit will find her family.

Charlie, a very gifted, young acrobat, cannot find employment. A dancer and colleague, whom he trained, has gotten him a job as a stagehand at a vaudeville theatre. After a number of chaotic events and some highs and lows - none of which ever discourage him - his hour arrives: an act can't go on and "Akrobat schööön" can finally make his grand entrance.

Vienna during the fin de siecle. Farmer's daughter Anuschka has to sell the farm after her father's death to the rich but mean farmer's wife Nowarek and her friendly son Jaro. Anuschka goes to Vienna and starts to work as a housemaid until she is wrongly accused of theft.

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.

영화의 바램과는 달리 다시 찾아온 현실의 비극을 떠올리면 안타깝기 그지없다

독일이 자랑하는 20세기 서양연극사의 거장 <베르톨트 브레히트>의 대표작! 도덕적으로 사는 것이 아니라 도덕을 수단으로 팔며 살아가는 자본주의시대의 뒷면을 신랄한 풍자와 비판적 웃음으로 풀어낸 브레히트 연극의 결정판 1900년 무렵 런던을 무대로 도적단 수령 메키는 거지짓을 기업화한 사업가 피첨의 딸 폴리와 결혼하지만 매춘부 제니를 배신함으로써 투옥된다. 총감의 딸 루시의 도움으로 탈옥한 메키는 다시 잡혀 교수대에 오르는데..