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The musician Peter Paul Müller (Dieter Borsche) lives for his job. So much so that he also forgets the circumstances of the Nazi dictatorship. In the years between 1930 and 1946 he was only allowed to perform in small clubs, but after he met the pretty singer Marion (Vera Molnar), the big breakthrough came. But with the many appearances, the relationship with his wife Annemie (Kristina Söderbaum) threatens to break up.
The wife of the English consul in British-occupied Egypt at the turn of the century falls in love with a French foreign legionnaire, and her husband takes advantage of this to spy on secret plans for an uprising instigated by the French. An action by the French in the desert is then bloodily suppressed by the English. The legionnaire survives, but he cannot forgive the woman who loves him for the fact that many of his comrades have died as a result of her betrayal.
A comedy centered on the character of Pepito. It is an Italian western made before the Spaghetti western era and it is at the same time a parody of the western genre.
Tanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary for the cemetery.
Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
A man embezzles some money in order to pay his debts and the daughter of his boss, who is in love with his son, asks a rich former suitor of hers for help. When the rich man is found murdered the girl is accused of the crime. Will she be able to clear her name?
A look at the exciting world of stock car racing, with glimpses at all the bumps and smashes, and thrills and spills that make up this amazing sport.
The BBC armchair detective clears a nightclub singer of suspicion of the murder of her boss.
Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a small sea village where he meets people of various kinds.
Using the puppet of a night watchman as an example, the creation of a hand puppet for the puppet show is described.
When the cosmopolitan pastor Linhart takes care of the pregnant, unmarried maid Angela, the entire village believes that he must be the father of the child—especially when he takes in the baby Andreas after the mother's death. Twenty years pass. Andreas has grown into a handsome young man. The old rumors have long since been forgotten. But when Andreas falls in love with the pretty Hanni and the old farmer Santner wants to leave him his farm, the envy and hatred of the villagers are reawakened.
Documentary short about barrel organ players in Italy.
Luis Aguilar heads the cast in this story of a band of outlaws whose exploits are more fun than negligible.
International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man.
Theater director Werner Sturm was amazed when he arrived in the Bavarian market town of Oberwinkel on a vacation and came across all kinds of disguised characters: knights and maids, squires and heralds were running around, and children were shooting arrows through the air with their bows
Spanish comedy of the 50s, with carefree and youthful air.
An Arumbaya fetish, a tribe living along the Badurayal river in Amazonia, has been stolen from the museum. Tintin and Thomson and Thompson set out to find this statue that has apparently no commercial value...
The three friends Stepan, Kolja and Anton go camping together on the beach and are looking forward to living "like the wild ones" for a while and escaping civilization - and women. But soon Vera and Silvia turn up: two friends who claim the three men's spot for themselves because they have been camping together in this exact spot for five years. The men won't budge, so Vera and Silvia set up their tent right next door and try to scare the men away, for example by listening to the radio loudly. Stepan, Kolja and Anton agree to ignore the two women. So they change their plan: they want to make the men fall in love with them and then pretend that they are suddenly leaving...
Another German Heimatfilm.
The year 1910: When Prince Georg, nephew of the Grand Duke of Baden-Werrach, realizes that an actress he supported and loved was only taking advantage of him, he and his friend, the poet Dr. Richard Hebele, retire to his castle in the Black Forest. On the way to Kaltenau, not far from the castle, he meets Barbara, the postwoman who drives the Black Forest stagecoach. The coach is about to be replaced by a bus, according to the progress of the project.
The story of the Clydesdale horse.
A young man arrives at Puebla de las Mujeres, a village of Andalusia with the tradition that man that arrives, man that marries there. The foreigner is going to solve some issues of interest of an aunt who lives in the village. Soon as he arrives all women mobilize, captained by the mayor, for electing bride and organize the wedding. The designated Juanita de la Rosa, does not want to participate and he laughs at the arrangements saying that he has a girlfriend in Madrid.
A Belgian industrial magnate returns home after spending ten years in Siberia. There he learns that he has since been declared dead and that his wife has remarried.
Propaganda film produced by the British Colonial Film Unit depicting everyday life in Nairobi, Kenya.
Editor Peter Rabanser is planning a series on the perfect cash heist, which he plans down to the last detail and actually begins to prepare: He befriends two cash couriers and lays the groundwork to lure them into an apartment he has rented.
Short film about Deutsche Bahn as a major steel purchaser
A look at the British Olympic bobsleigh team as they practise at St Moritz for the World Championships at Cortina in Italy.
An elderly lady, who has lost her only son in the war, turns her house into a pension. It is also the custody of a mysterious document that his son entrusted to him, and which is coveted by many people .
Documentary short
Austria, Bad Ischl: The young Princess Christine and the Imperial Count of Hohenegg are supposed to meet at the annual Imperial Ball before their planned engagement. But things turn out differently than expected: Christine falls in love with Count Baranyi, and her future husband falls in love with the seamstress Franzi, who is mistaken for a countess at the wrong moment...
Glacier pilot Hermann Geiger flies over a four-thousand-meter peak in the Valais Alps and observes a glacier collapse. The next day, three rope teams climb through this glacier to Dent Blanche. However, Dr. Gruber, accompanied by his wife, a young engineer named Gisler with his girlfriend Monica, two young men named Charly and Roby, mountain guide Perren, and the athletic Englishman Puckle get caught in a storm. Due to the weather conditions, Gruber slips and drags the other participants down with him. His wife, who had stayed behind in a hut, alerts the mountain rescue service. The storm initially prevents glacier pilot Geiger from taking action, but he then risks a breakneck landing to rescue the group.
A widow is unjustly imprisoned for theft and her daughter is sent to live with her grandmother.
A musically talented ape is captured in the jungle and taken back to civilisation. However, civilisation proves too uncouth for the cultured ape so he departs, philosophically pondering that "when the arts are out of date, the artist must withdraw and wait". A colourised version was released in 1980.
Pursued by an infamous song that makes her life impossible, Dolores leaves Calatayud.
Winner of Best Arts and Science Film at the 1st Berlin Film Festival
Married photographers Armand and Michaela Denis focus on Australian natives.