In 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The brilliant production was a huge success and ran for a couple of years. In 1959 Peter Gorski captured the performance on film in his directorial film debut. Basically it is a registration of the production, but Gorksi did manage to accentuate the details of the acting by using enough medium and close-up shots which give a view on the acting you normally would not able to see in a theater.
Num circo decadente, a cortesã Lola Montes (1820-1861) estrela um espetáculo sobre a sua vida de aventuras, marcada pelos romances com o compositor Franz Liszt e o rei Ludwig I da Baviera. Por meio de flashbacks, entramos no universo de memórias dessa fascinante e melancólica personagem.
Thomas offers Dorette a trip to Moselle that she rejects saying it's short notice, but when Thomas shows at her apartment the next day he finds she's not slept on her bed. He leaves for Dorette alone, and there he meets Angela.
Violin virtuoso Fedor Varany meets on the train from Nice to Vienna Helene Samboni, the lover of the Chamber of Commerce President Alexander Grabner and still-wife of the artist Samboni know. Fedor falls in love with her without betraying his identity.
Olga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.
Em um internato inglês, Mein Leben für Irland fala da revolta irlandesa contra a dominação britânica. Os filhos dos rebeldes irlandeses são enviados para uma escola Inglesa para se tornarem bons patriotas britânicos, mas eles esperam secretamente o dia em que possamlutar pela independência de seu país contra os britânicos,
Como o título "O Coração da Rainha" sugere, esta versão inicial, em preto e branco, do reinado e morte incessante de Mary Queen of Scott, concentra-se em sua percepção emocional de forma bastante lírica com algumas músicas, principalmente as criadas por ela.
