Herbert Grieser

The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.

Unusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a Chinese woman while on leave in Hong Kong, only to meet with disapproval from his family and friends when the couple returns to Europe.

Действие фильма происходит в начале XIX века во время знаменитого Венского конгресса, организованного при участии русского императора Александра I. Прекрасная белошвейка Фанни состоит в интимной связи с секретарем Меттерниха, Мартином, и благодаря ему попадает на бал в честь открытия конгресса. Русский царь замечает прекрасную венку и на следующий день посещает ее. Полиция доносит императору, что Фанни — шпионка Наполеона. Так простая девушка вовлекается в сложные международные интриги и ведет себя настолько ловко, что царь жалует ей титул графини. Таким образом, устраняется последнее препятствие на пути ее брака с Мартином.

Laslo Benedek interrupted his thriving Hollywood career to return to Europe as director of the German Kinder, Mutter und ein General (Children, Mother and the General). The film is set in Berlin during the last days of WW II. Desperate for manpower, Hitler has ordered that all able-bodied teenaged boys --some as young as 15 -- be drafted into the army. Frau Asmussen (Hilde Krahl) is one of five mothers who learn to their horror that their boys have been slated to be cannon fodder on behalf of the Third Reich. Asmussen and the other mothers head directly to the front to plead with the German generals for the lives of their sons. Not directly an indictment of Germany's involvement in (or incitement of) the recent war, Kinder, Mutter und ein General stresses the futility and heartbreak of all wars everywhere.