Gustav Waldau

Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them marry each other. Their parents have the same plan, too ... but with regards to their nosy kids. And so it happens, that Tobby wants to surprise the parents with the announcement of their parents' engagement at a party (so nice to let them know), but is one-upped by Stefanie's father, the old Count, who announces the engagement of the kids.

The general's widow Henriette of Petrin's not happy about the life of her eldest daughter Leonie. The girl married a young man and is now unhappy with their modest life. To escape their everyday life for a while, Leonie has taken on herself to persuade Count Marenzi to show the "big wide world". Leonie buys a fur coat and send the bill counts. Mother Henriette and Leonie's younger sister, Gerti want for Leonie's projects to fail.

Operetta (German: Operette) is a 1940 musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Maria Holst and Dora Komar. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938 Anschluss. It is the first film in director Willi Forst's "Viennese Trilogy". The film portrays the life of Franz Jauner (1832-1900), a leading musical figure in the city. It is both an operetta film and a Wiener Film.

The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war. (imdb)

A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess.