Oskar Höcker

Lorraine 1919 : des mineurs allemands abattant les grilles pour secourir les Français, bloqués par un coup de grisou. Un hymne à la fraternité entre ex-ennemis, interdit dès l'époque nazie.

A young actress places a misleading newspaper ad: "Hans, come back! Am so lonely and unhappy!" As a result, she is besieged by a crowd of unmarried cavaliers, all pretending to be her Hans.

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.

Dans un quartier de Londres en proie aux guerres de gangs, une rivalité s'installe entre le roi des mendiants et le gangster que sa fille veut épouser.

Berlin. À sa sortie de prison, le camelot Franz Biberkopf veut reprendre le droit chemin, mais est embarqué dans une affaire de cambriolage. En résistant, il est jeté d'une voiture. Amputé d'un bras à la suite de cet accident, il change alors d'orientation et décide de collaborer avec Reinhold, mauvais garçon notoire, responsable de ses misères. Franz devient un grand voleur perverti par l'argent. Pourtant, deux femmes proches de lui, Miese, petite chanteuse des rues, et Cilly, son ex-petite amie, s'unissent pour lui faire changer de vie.

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...

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.

After World War II, scores of refugees leave in search of a new home. They now stand in the hall of a large mansion, waiting to receive their deeds of ownership for sections of land that the lord of the manor had left behind after he fled. Among them is young Jeruscheit who, during her travels, had to bury one of her own children. Her husband has been declared missing, and up until now she has had little purpose in life. But then she discovers it: to work, to build, and to help others. And maybe someday Jeruscheit will find her family.

Vienna during the fin de siecle. Farmer's daughter Anuschka has to sell the farm after her father's death to the rich but mean farmer's wife Nowarek and her friendly son Jaro. Anuschka goes to Vienna and starts to work as a housemaid until she is wrongly accused of theft.

Charlie, a very gifted, young acrobat, cannot find employment. A dancer and colleague, whom he trained, has gotten him a job as a stagehand at a vaudeville theatre. After a number of chaotic events and some highs and lows - none of which ever discourage him - his hour arrives: an act can't go on and "Akrobat schööön" can finally make his grand entrance.