Luise Ullrich

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune... (imdb)

The story of a love affair between Franz Schubert and Countess Esterhazy.

Frank returns to his homeland as an engineer, falls in love with Regine, the housemaid of his uncle, and marries her. Thanks to the intrigues of Floris, one of Frank's rejects, Regine is suspected of having an affair with another man. Depressed and desperate, she intends to commit suicide, but is saved by Frank in the last minute.

Luise Ullrich and Mathias Wieman are the lovers and want to marry but he has to join the soldiers and since he doesn't want her to end up in the variete her parents have, he tries to tuck her away with his parents in the country, but with no success. The film makes progressively clear how mismatched the two really are, especially in a fine camera pan involving their respective uniforms, hers being already a variete costume. Finally the crisis leads to violence.

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. During these inspections, she meets Lieutenant Rainer, the former conductor of the State Opera. When she later makes music with him in the Archduke's castle, she becomes the unwilling witness to a secret cease fire negotiation.

Mrs. Diethelm and courageous teacher Christa Andres team up to run a home for misfit girls. Christa has had a very hard life, having even practiced prostitution, so she knows perfectly how to deal with rebellious girls. Erika, the most troublesome, reminds her a lot of herself when she was young. (Filmaffinity)

A Berlin woman grows up in the wake of Prussia's victory over France in 1870 and lives to see her grandchildren participating in the military successes of Germany under Hitler. (imdb)

The film is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. The film uses Ibsen's alternate ending.

Maler Pratt, an artist, refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika thinks differently and sells them because she thinks they are good...and they need the money. As he only signs an "M" on his work, Monika has no difficulty in claiming she is "M", but problems arrive when she is commissioned to do a large mural and Maler refuses to help her out.

A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.