TV-Zweiteiler um eine Liebe in den Kriegs- und Nachkriegswirren bis zum Mauerbau. Nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Peter Prange. Barbara Reichenbach und ihre Familie haben ein Schicksal, wie es nirgends sonst auf der Welt zu finden ist - außer in Deutschland. Die Geschichte beginnt im Oktober 1944 und endet im Oktober 1990, und sie spiegelt den Weg des geteilten Landes wieder. Barbaras Familie wird nach dem Krieg auseinander gerissen und kann erst ein halbes Jahrhundert später wieder richtig zusammenfinden. Für Barbara geht es um die Entscheidung zwischen Vernunft und Verlangen: zwischen ihrem Ehemann Alex, einem ehemaligen Leutnant, der im Ruhrgebiet ein erfolgreicher Manager wird, und Mischa, dem geheimnisvollen Offizier, der in die Machtzentren der Sowjetunion aufsteigt...

1953 film by E. W. Emo

1959 film by Géza von Cziffra

1957 film by Wolfgang Schleif

1957 film by Kurt Meisel

Peter Voss must recover eight Ming Dynasty horse statuettes from a gang of thieves, while dodging the detective on the case and trying to disrupt the fake marriage the gang set up to scam the young heiress, Mary de la Roche.

1957 film by Franz Antel

1967 film by Yves Allégret

1956 film by Georg Jacoby

Heidelberg teenagers make jazz music.

Robert, Peter and Fritz are the best of friends ... and hopelessly broke. But they don't let that stop them and in short order, they end up renting a deserted gas station. With just a little bit of wit and some elan, they'll bring the old girl back to life and all will look rosy ... until all three of them fall in love with the same dame: Gabi, the daughter of the director of a large gasoline firm. Thanks to her, their eternal friendship is really going to be put to the test.

1958 film by Wolfgang Becker

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.

A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.

A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a lot fun in his younger years. He decides to make up for this and attends school classes disguised as a pupil.

During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.

Jimmy Bondi and his miracle yellow VW Beetle Dudu are asked by their boyfriend Aldo to support him at a car show in Liverpool. After the show it turns out that the organizer Ivan Leskovich made off with the proceeds. Dudu and his friends give chase. Leskovich's trail leads via London to Switzerland, but thanks to Jimmy's lack of navigational skills, the friends first end up in Portugal...

Dudu, the craziest car in the world, takes part in the goofiest race in the world!

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.

1969 film by Rolf Thiele