A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young woman, is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen, her husband, works at the Westend Theater in West Berlin. This young marriage is in danger of breaking up as they vehemently defend their...
A young American businessman visits Communist Berlin and meets a young German woman. When the Communist government attempts to pass a resolution condemning the motives of the democracies, the girl defies them. Although even the Communist leadership expresses concern with his government's doctrines,...
Three 1950s city stories: In Hamburg, Sergeant Siegel tackles St. Pauli’s crime, from prostitution to deadly domestic fights. In Munich, teenager Helga Barufka teeters on the edge of nightlife’s dangers. In Düsseldorf, escort “Fräulein Doktor” outsmarts her boss by poaching his VIP...
Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the...
Jenny Bürstenbinder has climbed the social ladder by marrying Kommerzienrat Treibel. The professor's daughter Corinna Schmidt plans to do the same and woos Treibel's son Leopold with charm and wit. But Jenny Treibel lacks an adequate dowry.
The emergency braking of the Orient Express causes chaos. When the lights are switched back on, lawyer Branko is found murdered in his compartment. The Rarna Criminal Investigation Department starts investigating immediately. There are several suspects: Baron Hübner and his divorced wife, the...
The keywords for this film are comradeship and trust among the youth of a small village on the Baltic which is firmly under the control of an innkeeper, Ottokar Waschke. Waschke owns the only tugboat in town, which the town's fishermen, who make up the majority of the employed, need to transport...
