Gottfried Reinhardt

Three loosely connected love stories.

Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy in Holland during WW2, although she is suspected of having cooperated with and taken help from the Nazis. Colonel Pieter Deventer of Dutch Intelligence agrees that she may train to join a team in the resistance movement. The team starts to suffer heavy losses after she has joined them. Is she a traitor? (imdb)

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant. (imdb)

Always believing she had a happy marriage, a young wife's trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers that her father had paid him to marry her. (imdb)

During World War II, two Americans are forced to bail out and parachute into a small German town. Herr Frick, being equal parts patriotic and lonely, keeps them as prisoners of war in his bomb shelter. While his prisoners go stir crazy, Herr Frick must decide if he's willing to lose their companionship by letting them know the war has ended. (imdb)

The marriage of Karl Rodenbach (Bernhard Wicki) apparently lies in the last moves. His wife Tina (Ruth Leuwerik) and his passion for love has degenerated. Tina tries to escape into an affair with the writer Tony Cameron (Paul Hubschmid). Then a terrible car accident occurs in the course of which a man is killed. At the beginning Karl thinks Tony was at the wheel of the car. But when he realizes that it was Tina who drove the car, the extent of the tragedy becomes clear to him.

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Mueller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.

Death is sent by God to summon the wealthy bon vivant Jedermann. In his time of greatest need, he is abandoned by his lover, friends and wealth. (imdb)

The film has a bittersweet tone to the romance between the veteran Mathias Clausen (Albers) and the young and beautiful Inken Peters (Dueringer), between May and December. (FILMAFFINITY)