Hans Deppe

Three old friends are going on a cycle holiday, like they did 20 years ago. (imdb)

A priest's spotless reputation is compromised when he befriends unwed mother, Anna Birkmaler. Throwing caution to the wind, the priest falls in love with the "soiled" but basically decent Anna. Ultimately, however, he realizes that his covenant with God is stronger than his carnal desires.

Lack of money is the biggest concern of the young couple Forster. One day, after a serious dispute, Willy leaves his wife, without knowing that she's pregnant. His daughter Evchen is born in his absence. After fifteen years Willy returns...

For 25 years Maximilian and Fränze have had an ideal marriage, but when lawyer Thomas marries their daughter Monika, one of his clients, singer Alexandra, reveals that she is actually also Maximilian's daughter from an illicit affair.

A few days before the planned wedding of the chief inheritor von Halleborg, he experiences a terrible blow: his beloved bride Julia has a riding accident and dies. Von Halleborg becomes a broken man and chooses not to waste another moment thinking of love – his heart belongs to Julia. Halleborg runs the risk of losing his entire estate, for the conditions of inheritance make all to clear that if he does not marry by his 45th birthday, the estate is to be turned over to someone else.

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's marriage to the forester's daughter and even wants to sell the farm because of it. The exposure of a border smuggler as the perpetrator turns everything around for the better.

High up in the mountains, a peasant family drags themselves through the towering granite blocks with all their possessions to make a new home for themselves. The mountains, however, have no interest in seeing them make a home up there: for months, huge boulders have been crashing down around them; trees have been falling on the walls of their new home and collapsing it … and more than one time.

Millionaire Ambrosius Brown has been robbed in Chicago for the fifth time and is reported missing again shortly after being rescued. In reality, however, he is traveling to Europe with his friend Buddy Drops and his servant Washington. After twenty years in America, he now intends to spend his retirement on his estate in Mecklenburg.

On their wedding night, the very night Dr. Delius and his wife Marianne had been so eagerly anticipating, a heated argument erupted between the newlyweds. Marianne's loyal dachshund took its protective instincts a little too seriously, constantly thwarting every attempt Delius made to get closer. This led to a fierce debate, culminating in the couple's immediate decision to file for divorce.

Old Meiseken, a gingerbread baker, has been dead for three years, but his bosses don't know that. They've been paying him his pension all this time, unaware that his former landlords have been cashing the checks. When, one day, the assistant head of the bakery, Tony, pays a visit to Meiseken's place to get a hold of an old recipe, someone's got to play the part of Meiseken! The fraud blows up in the landlords' faces; but in the end, Tony gets the recipe book and even a new bride.

The three musicians Hans, Otto and Paul have no work and propose becoming street musicians with the support of Grete, who lives in the same apartment building. One day, Otto finds a valuable object. Rather than turn it in to the police, he sells it for money and then uses the money to buy alcohol. Hans, however, squanders his share at a fair and flirts with the widow Neumann. This hurts Grete deeply, who, without Hans' knowledge, is expecting a child.

Peter Bang, a journeyman carpenter who knows absolutely nothing about horses, wins the trust of Toni—a mare that had broken loose—and gently leads her back to her stud farm. There, he is offered a job as a stable hand, as he clearly possesses a special knack for handling horses. Peter accepts the offer but notices that the jockey, Otto Burian, treats the mare rather roughly.

A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancee but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local superstition. Eventually he decides to stay at home and marry his girl.

Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While basking in his celebrity at a nighttime carnival, Froelich romances Rose Stradner, the unhappy wife of brutish Heinrich George. When George refuses to give Stradner her freedom, she takes it anyway, but her fling with Froelich is doomed to disappointment. Our hero learns the hard way that one can be in a teeming crowd, yet still be all alone.

A stressed American millionaire is advised by his doctor to take some downtime and rest in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he buys an estate and turns it into a resort where other businessmen can take holidays from their stressful lives. In the process he falls in love with the estate's former owner.

An adaptation of Theodor Storm's most well known work. Der Schimmelreiter is the story of a visionary young north Frisian who sets about creating of a new form of dyke to protect the flood-prone lands. His rural, ultra-conservative community view his science and engineering with great suspicion and consider him to be working with the devil.