After 16 rocky years, Friedrich and Nina Prantner lose jobs and peace. A surprise inheritance lands them a “luxury yacht” in Grado, in reality a rotting trawler. The chaotic family navigates one disaster after another, finds joy in Italian life, and awaits an even bigger surprise back home.
The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we encounter the couple in the lovely...
Shortly before the First World War, the son of a Prague butcher is called up for military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army of Emperor Franz Joseph, proving to be a very incompetent recruit.
The owner of a travel agencies decides to took a holiday with his family. He combines business with pleasure and undertakes a tour of inspection of some of his enterprises. Incognito he arrives with his family at the Castle Hotel on the Wörthersee. But the hotel manager has been warned of the...
Because factory owner's son and womanizer Karl Fischer is constantly avoiding his rich fiancée Almut, his father Waldemar sends the flighty little boy to Italy, where he is supposed to work in his future father-in-law's business and come to his senses. The business is a beach hotel where Karl,...
Rudi Carnel is a passionate inventor. He has developed a universal robot that he wants to present to a large company. Unfortunately, the suitcase containing the robot is swapped with another one on the way there, and now suitcases are being swapped again and again, one of which contains a lottery...
The multi-millionaire John Underhower travels from New York to Bavaria, where he’s bought a castle. The reason? He wants to prove there’s ghosts in the old building. John represents himself as a poor circus performer to his unsuspecting cousin Hyronimus, who works as a tour guide at the...
