Margarete Schlegel

Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

Das Lied ist Aus (The Song Is Ended) is a typical early-talkie German musical in every respect, save one. The story, concerning the lives and loves of show folk, ends unhappily -- and surprisingly so. The doleful denouement didn't seem to have much effect on the film's box-office appeal, since Das Lied ist Aus proved a major moneymaker.

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.

The love story of David Copperfield.

A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.

Ivan, a poor Russian student, lives in Switzerland. He is unexpectedly invited to Russia by a distant relative, Princess Wirsky. To finance the journey, he works as a messenger for revolutionaries who want to depose Grand Duke Wirsky. In Moscow, he delivers the message and falls in love with Marja, the daughter of the revolutionary, but Marja's father loves Princess Wirsky and wants to betray the revolutionaries. The princess falls in love with Ivan, and jealously deports Marja to Siberia. In revenge, Ivan strangles the princess. He spends the rest of his life yearning for Marja, whom he has never kissed. When he receives the news of Marja's death, he commits suicide.

One out of three silent adaptations of the novella "Les quatre diables" written by Danish author Herman Bang. The most famous one, although unfortunately lost, is without any doubt F.W. Murnau's "4 Devils". This German version, by Danish director A.W. Sandberg, was done eight years prior to Murnau's American one, and was a big success at the time.

Врач Уоррен попадает под влияние скульптурного изображения, одна сторона которого показывает изображение доброго бога, вторая — злобного демона. Эта ужасная скульптура меняет его сознание. Он находит эликсир, который позволяет разделить Доброе и Злое в человеке. Уоррен может теперь превращаться в своего «alter ego» ОКоннора и обратно. Но однажды превращение не срабатывает, он обречён вечно оставаться О`Коннором. Он пытается составить завещание на имя Уоррена, но это ему не удается. В конце концов, преследуемый полицией, Уоррен покончил с собой.