Robert Scholtz

Le sympathique et insouciant Grand-Duc d'Abacco est en grande difficulté. Il n'y a plus d'argent pour combler la dette de l'État ; le principal créancier envisage d'exproprier le duc Le mariage avec Olga, grande duchesse de Russie, résoudrait tout, mais une lettre cruciale de cette dernière concernant les fiançailles a été volée. De plus, une bande de révolutionnaires et un homme d'affaires douteux ont d'autres plans concernant le Grand-Duc. Avec l'intrusion de l'aventurier Philipp Collins dans les affaires du Grand-Duc, une série de poursuites effrénées, de complots et de contre-plots commencent.

When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.

Drama about the unhappily married Alexandra who hopes to recover from tuberculosis in a mountain resort, but instead meets the multimillionaire Edgar Buchanan.

A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.