Rudolf Schaad

In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanations, but when she finds more proof later, she leaves and seeks comfort in the arms of her former friend Nicola in Italy. The story is told from the perspective of her diary.

It is a love story between a prostitute and an artist. It was one of the first German films to break several taboos: nudity, suicide and euthanasia. In the Germany of the '50s, this caused a lot of negative reactions by the politicians and the Roman Catholic Church. The opposition reached the degree of banning the film and scandalizing it which paradoxically made it one of the landmarks in the history of film.

Quando dois capitães russos de cavalaria chegaram a uma estação de correios alemã, um deles lembra o que aconteceu há muito tempo. Ele começa a contar a história: dez anos atrás, um camarada deles descansou no Correio e se apaixonou pela filha do chefe do Correio. Ele prometeu tudo para ela e, finalmente, convenceu-a a ir com ele para São Petersburgo. Quando ambos chegaram lá, ela teve que perceber que seu capitão nunca teve a intenção de se casar com ela.

Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.

In the spring of 1937 Leni Riefenstahl had only just started editing the 1st part of her magnum opus Olympia and it became clear that the film would not be ready for another year. The German authorities, who were financing the film, began to fear that these delays would have a negative impact on the future commercial success of the two Olympia films and so it was decided to create a promotional film, in English and in French, in order to maintain public interest for the film.

O filme segue a história de vida de Johann Augustus Suter, o dono de Sutter's Mill, famoso como o local de nascimento da grande corrida do ouro da Califórnia de 1848.

Georg Alexander plays Douglas Mavis, the son of a rich English family who falls in love with a Berlin girl (Renate Müller) and marries her. However, he doesn't tell his family, and for a reason: the resolute head of the family (played by the inimitable Adele Sandrock) has other designs for her grandson. Further complications arise when the family lawyer (Adolf Wohlbrück) gets to know the Berlin lady without knowing who she is. And meanwhile, Mavis meets an alluring lady from a cabaret (Hilde Hildebrand).

First adaptation of Heinrich Spoerl's novel.

The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country.