Marianne Simson

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her.

A foreman’s son and his noble friend, who have voluntarily arrived from Berlin to help out with the harvest, switch their billeting coupons while on the journey, so as to play a trick on the estate owner, who is related to one of them. The wrong boy is asked to sit at the estate owner’s table, while the real relative is pushed off on the servants. And so begins a game of confusion with amusing results.

Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.

Au XXe siècle, dans le château de Bodenwerder, au cours d'un bal costumé, le baron de Münchhausen fait le récit des aventures de son ancêtre, le baron Hiéronimus, à ses amis. Celles-ci ont commencé au XVIIIe siècle en Russie, sous le règne de la Grande Catherine. A cette époque, Hiéronimus, officier au service de la tsarine Catherine II, curieusement rencontrée sous des habits de servante, fit la connaissance de Cagliostro, l'illustre magicien, qui lui fit cadeau de l'immortalité et d'une bague rendant son porteur invisible. Un exploit plus grand encore l'attendait au siège d'Ortchakoff : propulsé par un boulet, l'illustre baron pénétra dans la citadelle turque...