In this slapstick comedy, two women who own rival beauty parlors in a small town squabble with each other.

A shoemaker has delusions of grandeur when he inherits from a baron whose life he saved.He prevents his daughter from seeing a mere carpenter, abandons humble old friends, and shows poor judgment by falling for a couple of poseurs.

Der junge Herr aus Oxford stammt aus Wien, wohin er nach dem Studium auch zurückkehrt, um das Bauunternehmen seines verstorbenen Onkels zu übernehmen. Um sich einen besseren Überblick zu verschaffen, tritt er als kleiner Angestellter in die Firma ein und verliebt sich natürlich umgehend in eine junge Kollegin ...

1931 film directed by Georg Jacoby

1939 film directed by Jürgen von Alten

1954 film by Thomas Engel

1956 film by Ulrich Erfurth

1954 film by Herbert B. Fredersdorf

The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Frankfurt to Berlin, nice atmospheric shots of sleeper and dining car in the morning. The action continues in the luxury villas and apartments of Berlin, Renate Müller wears a string of very elegant outfits. Misunderstandings, jealousies, temporary separation of husband and wife, a few songs, wicked humour.

Based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde, it is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Berlin.

film directed by Jacob Fleck

The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini, has been murdered shortly before the departure in a mysterious way. Several persons are suspected and these are, precisely, the passengers of the "Yoshiwara".