Margarete Haagen

Heavily influenced by such prewar French directors as Vigo and Carne, the film is set amongst the barge workers of the River Havel. Refreshingly free of political propaganda, the story concentrates on a romance between a bargee and a waterfront lass. (All Movie Guide)

Germany, during the early postwar years. A director, an author and an actor discuss a film to be made - which form, which topic can film assume during these times? They are joined by two friends of the author, a farmer's daughter and an arts dealer from Berlin. The crew soon chooses the couple's lives and love story during war and postwar times as a plot for the film. (translated from filmportal.de)

A stewardess is in love with a race driver. But is going to marry a princess and ignores her. When his fiancée leaves him before the marriage he tries to kill himself. A guardian angel, in the guise of the stewardess, saves his live and tries to make him fall in love with the stewardess. This proves to be very difficult, beause she falls in love with him herself and the fiancée is coming back too...

A rich man wins a vacation at a hotel but takes it in the disguise of a poor man under the supervision of his butler. The hotel manager gets tipped off about the plot, but misidentifies a money-less doctor as the eccentric. (imdb)

In this pro-euthanasia melodrama, a successful doctor is forced to make a heart wrenching decision after his beautiful young wife is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. (imdb)

After their flight from East Prussia following WW II, the orphaned sisters Angela, Barbara (nicknamed Dick) and Brigitte (Dalli) have settled with their grandmother Jantzen near Eutin in Schleswig-Holstein. The Jantzens have been owning the 18th century manor house "Immenhof" for over a 100 years, breeding and selling ponies. Owing to debt, Jantzen may have to face the auctioning off of all her possessions. Into this situation arrives Ethelbert, the sisters' posh cousin from the big city. (imdb)

What was merely menacing a year before has become bitter truth: The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. In order to save the manor house, Dalli has started a "pony circus" with the village children in the barn, while Dick has given up hope of Ethelbert ever returning - he hasn't written in over a year. (imdb)

The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on horseback to Lübeck, where they all distribute the brochure -- not knowing that Dalli has added some embellishments to the text.

Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team.