Answald Krüger

Harry Domela lives well, when he poses as a prince.

The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She manages to keep them together in spite of the fact that their economic situation deteriorates after World War I. Never one to look too critically upon her brood, the woman undergoes a moving and gradual transformation as the adult activities of her children bring home the fact that none of them are what she had once imagined.

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.

The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience.

Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified.

While perusing a police photo, Hilde - an investigative reporter - recognizes a bracelet that she once owned while living in her native Romania. She seeks out the current owner of the bracelet, hoping that he can provide information concerning her long-lost father. Thus begins a curious chain of events...