Werner Finck

Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. (All Movie Guide)

A total of five episodes were aired. Fassbinder actually wrote eight episodes, but the show was cancelled and the last three were never shot. (KG)

Leopold is the head waiter of the hotel "White Horse Inn" at the lake Wolfgangsee. He is in love with the hostess Josepha, but she rejects him...

Germany, during the early postwar years. A director, an author and an actor discuss a film to be made - which form, which topic can film assume during these times? They are joined by two friends of the author, a farmer's daughter and an arts dealer from Berlin. The crew soon chooses the couple's lives and love story during war and postwar times as a plot for the film. (translated from filmportal.de)

In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis. (imdb)

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe. (imdb)

A bizarre cash-in, Die Graue Dame is a quasi-Holmes picture based on a theatrical play entirely unrelated to the works of Doyle. Here, young Jimmy Ward - played by Hermann Speelmans (1906-1960) infiltrates a criminal gang, only to reveal at the last moment that he is, in fact, none other than an undercover Sherlock Holmes. One can only presume that the 'John' - who, according to the credits list, acts as Holmes' 'servant' - was intended to be none other than the hapless Dr Watson.

Die verliebte Firma was Max Ophüls' first feature film. The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her. (imdb)

Pepe Nietnagel's bunch's pranks make their school a logical choice for being assigned an elite teacher by the Ministry of Education. The choice falls on overqualified Dr. Peter Bach. (imdb)