Maria Koppenhöfer

Set in the early part of 20th century Europe. There lived a dancer who becomes the romantic bone of contention between a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.

The day before chemist Dr. Hans Wynhold leaves for a six months business trip to Africa, he meets chemistry student Christa Weiden. They spend the evening together in St. Pauli and fall in love. She doesn't tell him that she'll start the next day at the chemistry laboratory he works at too, because he says he doesn't like women in "men's jobs". Only after his departure the next day Christa learns about Hans' reputation as a Don Juan. In fear that she'll lose him to another woman, she follows him... and starts a series of complications.

The Termoehlens belong to the old farming class in Flanders. Their estate does well and their flax is the best far and wide. And as is the custom, old Termoehlen is like a ruler over his family, the servants and the maidens. Even his son Ludwig, who has just returned from agricultural school with all his ideas on how to improve the farm, doesn’t stand a chance. When Ludwig falls in love with the maiden Rieneke – known as Schellebelle – his father become a despotic enemy.

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. During these inspections, she meets Lieutenant Rainer, the former conductor of the State Opera. When she later makes music with him in the Archduke's castle, she becomes the unwilling witness to a secret cease fire negotiation.

В 1862 году Германия была разделена на 35 государств, входивших в конфедерацию под фактической властью императора Австрии Франца Иосифа. Король Пруссии Вильгельм I, желая восстановить независимость своего государства от власти династии Габсбургов, назначает на должность премьер-министра барона фон Бисмарка. Бисмарк распускает парламент, вводит цензуру в печати, проводит реформу армии. Как дипломат Бисмарк успешно ведет переговоры с Францией, Австрией и Россией. После перевооружения прусской армии Бисмарк начинает реализацию плана создания единой Германии «железом и кровью».

В конце XVI столетия Англия и Шотландия были еще раздельными королевствами. Мария Стюарт — королева Шотландии выросла во Франциии была обвенчана с наследником французского престола. Только после смерти своего супруга она вернулась на родину, чтобы взойти на шотландский трон. Королева Англии — Елизавета понимала, что возвращение Марии Стюарт означало новую опасность для её страны и без того уставшей от религиозных распрей. Католики считали именно Марию истинно законной наследницей Английского престола, но страстная натура Марии толкнула её на путь греха и саморазрушения и, в конце концов, она оказалась во власти Елизаветы.

1938 German film.

Когда танцовщица Кармен посещает тореадора Антонио, который зарезал цыганку, в тюрьме она встречает бригадного драгуна Хосе. Они сразу же полюбили друг друга, и с этого дня Хосе часто приходит в кафе, где танцует Кармен. Когда Кармен ревностно ранит другого танцора в драке, Хосе приказывают арестовать её...

The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining to start life anew, he falls in love with his secretary Inken (Marianne Hoppe) and impulsively takes a vacation to Italy. Clausen's selfish grown children, not wishing to share their father's affections -- nor his money -- with his new wife-to-be, go to court demanding that Clausen be declared mentally incompetent. Upon finding this out, Clausen flies into a rage, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not he really as gone off his trolley. Der Herrscher was directed by Veit Harlan, more famous (or notorious) for his viciously anti-Semitic Jud Suess (1940).

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.

The peaceful life of a village of Frisions by the river Volga is troubled by the arrival of a troop of Red Guards led by the inhuman commissary Tschernoff.Not only content to mistreat the brave villagers led by no-nonsense young man Jürgen Wagner, he makes Mette, a girl born from a Frision man and a Russian woman, his mistress. Outraged, the villagers expel the girl who takes refuge in the marshes. The Bolsheviks are prompt to react, one of them raping a young Frision girl. The Frisions, in desperation, set fire to their village after slaughtering the "Reds" and head for a new motherland, Nazi Germany maybe...

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.

The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.

Во время концертного тура известный тенор Риккардо Гатти встречает Ликси на репетиции Аиды и принимает её за балерину. На самом деле она пытается получить должность для своего парня, поэтому она принимает приглашение Гатти на ужин. Когда она убегает, он публикует объявление в газете, предлагающее дать концерт где угодно, если она появится. Она выбирает бассейн в надежде на то, что он не согласится. Но он согласен...

A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919).

After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion.