The story tells of the Army officer Octavio and his consuming love for Giuditta, a passionate spitfire, who leaves him because he refuses to desert the colours for her; their chance meeting several years afterwards comes too late, though they realise how much they have lost.
Секретный агент Томас Ливен пытается начать мирную жизнь, оставив свою профессию. Но тяга к приключениям заставляет его вернуться к прежней работе… Знаете ли Вы, что... :
Перевод оригинального названия — "Не всегда должно везти".
March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futility of his assignment and makes a fateful decision.
Американскому моряку Филипу Гейлу не повезло: сначала он пропускает свой корабль после ночи любви в порту Антверпена, затем обнаруживает, что женщина украла его деньги и документы. После месяцев скитаний без документов он нанимается на судно "Йорикке", чтобы вернуться в Америку. Но вскоре выясняется, что его наняли на "корабль смерти", гружёный опасным грузом.
While Eva is in the hospital after an accident, her son, Peter, goes in search of his long-missing father. Learning he has died, Peter then prepares himself for the new man in his mother's life.
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome, when she falls in love with Robert.
After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lüneburg Heath. While living a seemingly happy life on the estate of his cousin, Lüdersen hides a dark secret: he is a poacher.
The painter Hans Hauser falls head over heels in love with the "Black Forest girl" Bärbele Riederle. He travels to her home village and soon the two realize that they are made for each other.
