Gerhard T. Buchholz

William I is on the run from Napoleon. In Frankfurt, he gives obligations, worth £600,000, to Mayer Amschel Rothschild so he can carry them to England into safety. Rothschild instead uses the money to make profits for himself. After a decade, the Rothschilds had accumulated a fortune of £11 million. Finally, they join forces with the commissioner of the British treasury to enslave all of Europe. The film ends with a burning Star of David over a map showing the major cities of Europe. (en.wikipedia.org)

Multi-perspective crime tale.

In 1945, Mischa, a Red Army officer, discovers a frightened German girl, Anna, huddled in a Berlin cellar. He gives her a safe escort home and wins her gratitude. Seven years later, Mischa returns to Berlin as a civilian engineer in charge of factory production. He remembers Anna and searches for her in the western sector, where he is observed by the Secret Police. He is instructed to report to the police chief, Kazanow, who reprimands him for leaving the eastern zone... (Les Adams)

The young hotel manager Leutner runs for study purposes a transmitter in the hotel room of his fiancée Maria. Coincidentally he learns that a gang of counterfeiters want to get rid of a troublesome witness at 12:15 AM. Will Leutner be able to prevent this… and can he trust his fiancée at all? Cheats, swindlers, forgers and murderers are hiding under the mask of honest and reputable hotel guests.