Georg Guertler

Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.

À Stuttgart en 1733, un juif ambitieux, Süss Oppenheimer, devient le ministre des Finances du faible duc de Wurtemberg. Il parvient à s'infiltrer dans l'État grâce au prêt usuraire. Pour compenser ses dettes, le duc confie à Sùss l'administration des routes du duché et les péages. Sous l’influence d’un rabbin, il fait du duché un paradis pour ses coreligionnaires. Pour faire face à l'opposition grandissante des habitants, il suggère au duc de supprimer la Diète du Wurtemberg. Il réunit pour cela une armée de mercenaires.

In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…