Edith Schultze-Westrum

East German chauffeur becomes determined to tunnel to West Berlin, to allow his family and new girlfriend to escape Communist domination. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)

Vera Berg is a career woman. As an attorney with her own law firm, she has her life under control, illusions or unnecessary feelings she does not give herself. One day, however, love makes a point for her: the entrepreneur Bönisch, who was cast as a Casanova, tries to win Vera for herself.

In the old Jewish quarter of Prague, there is a three-story building in which people of different origins live: Czechs, Germans, and many Jews. Everything changes for them when the German army invades the Czech Republic in March 1939. (FILMAFFINITY)

When she was a little girl, Liuba came to town with her widowed mother to live in the block of flats owned by her aunt Anna Iwanowna. The wealthy and cold-hearted Anna Iwanowna barely accepted them as tenants. And no sooner did Liuba's mother die than she wanted to send her niece to the orphanage. Fortunately, Pawlin, Anna Iwanowna's janitor, decided to adopt her and he brought her up with affection. When she grew up, the beautiful Liuba fell in love with her aunt's son, Dodja.