Kurt Jürgens

Leni, the daughter of an artist plans on opening a new kind of circus and suddenly finds herself able to achieve her goals after the death of a rich friend who has named her sole beneficiary...

Various aspects of German history are explored from several angles in a series of odd sequences. Gabi Teichert (Hannelore Hogar) is both a history teacher and a patriot. One day she goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel (digging for the truth?). She comes across is a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad, whose symbolically disembodied knee speaks to her... (All Movie Guide)

Willi (Alfred Edel) endeavours to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in this civil war... (myduckisdead.com)