Erich Walter

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates. (Description from Wikipedia)

The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young woman tries to escape her fate.

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

Deux escrocs parviennent à arrêter un train de nuit pour des fins néfastes et à usurper l'identité de Sherlock Holmes et du Docteur Watson. Mais avec l'aide de deux jeunes filles britanniques, ils se rachètent une conduite en décidant d'enquêter sur la disparition de timbres d'une valeur inestimable.

Dans les temps troublés de la république de Weimar, le mystérieux docteur Mabuse use de ses pouvoirs psychiques pour perpétrer des crimes audacieux dans le plus grand anonymat. Sur les traces de ce génie du mal, le procureur Von Wenck se lie d'amitié avec Gerhard Hull, jeune industriel fortuné. Ce dernier, qui a été la victime d'une étonnante arnaque au jeu, va l'introduire dans le milieu interlope du Berlin nocturne.