, 1h50 Directed byVeit Harlan GenresDrama, War, Historical, Romance ThemesPolitique, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films ActorsKristina Söderbaum, Heinrich George, Paul Wegener, Gustav Diessl, Horst Caspar, Claus Clausen Rating59% The film begins in 1813 after the phase of the Napoleonic Wars known in German as the Befreiungskriege (War of Liberation). The opening scenes show Prussian Landwehr and volunteers marching down the streets of Breslau through enthusiastic crowds. This is followed by a dialogue between King Frederick William III of Prussia and Count August von Gneisenau, in which Gneisenau explains that the siege of Kolberg taught the importance of citizen armies. Ending with the admonition that kings who cannot lead must abdicate, the scene switches to Vienna in 1806 to show the abdication of the last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II of Austria, whom the script has Gneisenau call "an Emperor who abandoned the German people in their hour of need".
, 1h37 GenresDrama ThemesPolitical films ActorsFriedrich Kayßler, Maria Koppenhöfer, Martha Ziegler, Fritz Hoopts, Marianne Simson Roles Ontje Ibs Rating59% Communist authorities are making life as difficult as possible for a village of Volga Germans in the Soviet Union, with taxes and other oppression. When Mette, a half-Russian, half-Frisian woman, becomes the girlfriend of Kommissar Tschernoff, the Frisians murder her and throw her body in the swamp. Open violence breaks out, and the Red Army soldiers are all killed; the villagers set fire to their village and flee.
, 1h22 Directed byDouglas Sirk OriginGerman GenresDrama ActorsHansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank, Friedrich Kayßler, Eduard von Winterstein, Lina Carstens, Theodor Loos Roles Peat skipper Rating67% Un jeune et modeste fermier, amoureux d'une femme issue d'une plus grande ferme que lui, se rend à la foire aux bonnes pour en embaucher une. Il tombe en affection pour une jolie bonne, enceinte de son ancien patron et qui se défend lors d'un procès pour faire reconnaître le futur bébé.