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- A troubled father, working as a postmaster in province, worries about his daughter taken to the capital by a rich officer.
- 15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from show-biz, married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick of it and wants to work again. A romantic affair with his stepdaughter Shirley gives him the guts to ask for a role. His former agent gets him one, but it's with a small company in Vienna, Austria. The stress worsens his alcoholism - the tablets he takes to hide the effects lead him to hallucinations. When his wife and girlfriend appear at the same time, he's no longer capable of handling the situation.
- The pasta factory owner and gourmet consul Keyser is looking forward to his summer vacation at the hotel, when his caring daughter Marion condemns him to a stay on the barren Italian island "Isola Piccola" to put him on a better diet.
- Count Wolkersheim attends the 1815 Vienna Congress to negotiate,to the Countess joy. Political concerns and music mix in a waltzing city, their apparently opposite attitudes testing their love. Will she behave or will he learn to waltz?
- A politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.
- It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's newly-elected president, makes his inauguration speech, he declares Austrian independence and issues an edict ending Austria's financial support for the Global Union. The Global Union President arrives in a flying-saucer with her retinue of world-soldiers, equipped with death-ray guns, to put an end to the rebellion. The president and the country are put on trial. The Austrian president recounts the country's' long battle for peace, and shows how Austria stopped the invasion of the Turks, and gave the world the operetta and the waltz. He organizes a mass parade with flora floats and a brass band playing the Austrian Freedom Song in order to appeal to the court's impartiality. A 1943 document signed by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin and assuring Austria of independence is presented.
- This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were rescued from extinction only by the intervention of the German army.
- After all the drama in "Und Ewig Singen die Wälder", the surviving second son and heir, Dag junior, father of the next heir, lays his father in his grave. The former castle estate steward feared to be thrown out with his retarded son Lorenz, but is offered management again, and a new house for him and Adelheids's old aunt Eleonore Barre, the sister of Dag's now in-living father-in-law, Royal Guards Major Henrik a.D. Barre, who will tend to Bjorndal estate's bookkeeping. Dag is fair for his tenants, while hard for those who try to cheat him, and gives employ to hapless Gunvor, till her husband writes her sprung from jail, so she admits having been charged with the same murder as he; Dag finds and gets rid of her husband who tells him she was unfaithful with the victim, a rich apothecary in the city; paid off to leave for suggesting -perhaps truthfully- her baby is Henriks, showing the treasured ring the major once receives from a royal chamberlain, Gunvor takes revenge by breaking a window so his infant dies from the icy wind, while Adelheid worried what caused this nightly haste. After the funeral Eleonore convinces Adelheid happiness can only return after making up with Dag, and sends her brother to Dag, who warns him he can't continue taking the blame in his wife's eyes; the Major shoots himself, leaving a letter about his guilt. Years later the couple has other children; the wood business is good, exporting to Britain. Eleonore adopts orphan girl Barbara. When the flood causes logs to clog up in the river requiring an explosion, Lorenz takes Barabara for a coach drive and they jump in a boat; Dag jumps in at the last moment, but the logs catch up, only the girl gets safe ashore and becomes son Dag III's sweetheart...
- Director Richard Anden and his screenwriter take a cruise on a luxury liner, avoiding all feminine attempts to get a movie contract, including the ship singer. When he unexpectedly discovers that a beautiful passenger is involved in a murder mystery and chased by the police he'll try to save her from jail. Yet everyone has a secret in this Austrian musical comedy.
- A film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.]
- A Hungarian estate heiress is to be deprived of her property through a forced marriage. Disguised as a man she flees to her sister in Vienna.
- The married couple Joseph and Käthe Zeller live with their children Felix, Paul, Walter and Franziska on an Austrian estate. It's just after WW II. During a family outing, the father steps on a tell mine and is fatally injured. When arranging his legacy, Käthe realizes that her husband did not manage to do well. With the rest of her money she moves to Vienna with the children and buys a small laundry there.
- The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna to solve the murder of his father. Step by step he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in Secret-Service machinations and chemical-weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much further, to a court hearing during the Third Reich.
- It's all about the value of a beautiful thoroughbred hunting dog and his loyalty. The animal has to choose between love and duty. Love, as always, pervails.
- Streusler wants his daughter Nelly to finish school and study at the university, but she has difficulties learning (Latin and Maths). He uses every possible way of bringing people home to help her, using his famous Streuselkuchen as bait. In the meantime, a new tenant arrives: a chimney-cleaner opening a new office in the same house where the bakery is. Streusler protests, he already sees black dirt in his tarts and flying around everywhere. Meanwhile, Nelly gets to know the chimney-cleaner in private...
- A doctor marries a colleague who once loved the patient, a paraplegic, he is operating on.
- Peter and Paul are old friends who happen to meet again. Both are dentists and both want to get married the next day.
- Juvenile friends Gottfried and Guido swear that never a woman must threaten their friendship. Years later, when they re-meet and Gottfried introduces Guido to his fiancee, Guido realizes that she is his former lover, Hanna.
- The tribulations of a typical German mother sacrificing and struggling during the Nazi era. Having lost her husband in an accident, she toils as a laundress. When one of her four children may lose an eye, she donates one of her own.
- Overworked lawyer Eugen is busy mending other people's marriages and business problems. Though he is aware that his wife Valentine plans to leave him for a pianist he can't help it. The crisis escalates when their son falls seriously ill.
- One of a series of biography films from WWII Germany, this about early 20th century Austrian politician Karl Lueger, who helped modernize Vienna but whose Christian Social party ,espousing anti Semitism, inspired a young Adolf Hitler.