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Countess Franziska is "kidnapped" by a band of robbers. However, her father is not willing to pay the ransom, so Franziska changes sides.

The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern developers in this comic horror/musical.

Andreas, a young German student, comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas must leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return someday.

A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. Once he is married to her, he comes to love her passionately and cannot bear the thought of losing her. In an effort to save her life, he spends all their money, but to no avail. His wife dies and he is once again penniless. However, he is a changed man.

Adaptation of Tolstoy story in which a female pianist is the center of a struggle between her husband and his violinist cousin ,a struggle that leads to a tragic conclusion.

In search of her French relatives, a young English teacher finds the happiness of her life in Nimes, southern France

When she was a little girl, Liuba came to town with her widowed mother to live in the block of flats owned by her aunt Anna Iwanowna. The wealthy and cold-hearted Anna Iwanowna barely accepted them as tenants. And no sooner did Liuba's mother die than she wanted to send her niece to the orphanage. Fortunately, Pawlin, Anna Iwanowna's janitor, decided to adopt her and he brought her up with affection. When she grew up, the beautiful Liuba fell in love with her aunt's son, Dodja, a good-looking but profligate army officer. Wishing nothing more than an affair with Liuba, Dodja did not hesitate to play the comedy of love to her. When she realized what Dodja was really after, Liuba was devastated and in desperation accepted to marry Pawlin, her benefactor, who had been infatuated with her for years. Alas, in the middle of the wedding party Dodja danced with Liuba and eloped with her.

When visiting the Salzburg Festival wealthy Georg gets financial support from his Austrian friend due to the fact that during the thirties of the last century it was only allowed to take a very small amount of money across the border from Germany to Austria. One day they missed each other and Georg gets help from the parlor maid Konstanze to pay his bill in a cafe. Of course Georg falls for Konstanze. When he learns that she as well as the rest of the family is pretending being part of the domestic staff he cooperates to support Konstanze's father - owner and count of the castle - to collect some comic situations which he needs for his next theatrical comedy.

Simultaneously filmed German version of a comedy also made in Czech: a wealthy young lady takes a job in a department store, part of a huge company she's inherited, to learn about the lower classes; she falls in love with a shipping clerk.

The mysterious Mrs. Erlynne is working hard to be introduced to London's high society. Lady Windermere is baffled when her husband invites the notorious woman, and in turn decides to elope with a suitor, Lord Darlington.

A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer.She's also interested in having a child.

In this Cinderella style romance, a working class blonde introduces samples of a new perfume her father has made, to the rich and powerful at a fancy Baden Baden hotel, by pretending she is a socialite.

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.

The holidays are over and the students of the Schiller high school in Baldenburg. The new term will wake up with the chorale , my heart, and sing before Director Bartmann reads a deed of gift from Manfred Werner from Bahia in Brazil .

In Annemarie Brinkmann's small German village all the young men are recruited to the front in WWI. When her boyfriend Klaus Renken gets the call they spend their last romantic night together. Time goes by but one day when the pastor announces the names of the fallen villagers: Klaus is among them. Annemarie collapses while the congregation sings a funeral song.