Alfred Karen

A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.

1885. Pour le festival d'opéra qu'elle a organisé, la petite ville d'Imlingen a invité une célèbre chanteuse, Maddalena Dall'Orto, qui non seulement chantera à l'opéra local, mais jouera également le rôle de la Passion selon saint Matthieu de Bach à l'église. La dame est accueillie par un comité d'accueil enthousiaste composé du prince d'Imlingen lui-même. Au bout d'un moment, Maddalena, qui est venue avec son amie Rohrmoser, révèle qu'ils sont tous les deux d'origine allemande. En fait, Maddalena est Magda von Schwartze, une citoyenne d'Ilmingen qui a quitté la maison en colère quelques années auparavant ...

Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.

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.

Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes

Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.