Peter Elsholtz

Ремейк фильма о солдатах-национал-социалистах 1937 года, в котором сюжет переносится с Первой мировой войны на Вторую: незадолго до окончания войны молодой лейтенант Преториус получает приказ отправить на фронт запасной полк. В отпуске на родину было отказано. Когда они проходят через Берлин, Преториус тем не менее дает солдатам, базирующимся здесь, шесть часов отпуска, которыми мужчины пользуются по-разному. В конце концов, все сопротивляются искушению дезертировать и возвращаются в полк в полном составе.

The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of the times, drifting, and in the end becoming involved with a circle of rich people who sell goods for sexual favours.

Главный герой фильма талантливый архитектор Андреас Шлютер. После создания памятников Великому курфюрсту и его сыну Фридриху III ему поручают руководить сооружением Берлинского Городского дворца. Но спустя несколько лет из-за интриг, закрученных конкурентом, Шлютера отстраняют от работы и сажают в тюрьму.

A sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.

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.

Известный канатаходец Трукса пьёт в баре Artisan в Нью-Йорке. Когда он встречает молодого человека Хусена, то дает ему своё сценическое имя Трукса. Он должен занять место настоящего Трукса на цирковом шоу в Винтергартене, Берлин.

Considering Germany's own treatment of Poland in 1939, it is ironic in the extreme that the 1938 German film Um Freiheit und Liebe (For Freedom and Love) is a celebration of Poland's declaration of independence from Russia. Werner Hinz plays Konrad, an idealistic Polish student who courts disaster for his loved ones through his constant harrangues against Russian impression. When his mother promises the authorities that Konrad will cease his protests, he is honor bound to obey her, no matter what the provocation. Drowning his disappointment in liquor, Konrad falls in love with nightclub singer Anna Sasotska (Viktoria von Ballasko). While he never achieves his political goals, Konrad at least finds happiness romantically. The climax of the film is particularly exciting, even though it is motivated by anti-Russian (and implicitly pro-Nazi) propaganda.

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.