Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

Professor Lorenz is nominated for the highest accolade of his profession, and he smiles about his sons' juvenile mismanagement of private funds. Then he learns that one of them has forged the professor's signature on several IOUs.

A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her.

A foreman’s son and his noble friend, who have voluntarily arrived from Berlin to help out with the harvest, switch their billeting coupons while on the journey, so as to play a trick on the estate owner, who is related to one of them. The wrong boy is asked to sit at the estate owner’s table, while the real relative is pushed off on the servants. And so begins a game of confusion with amusing results.

Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.

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

A continuation of the film "Familie Buchholz": To Wilhelmine Buchholz, the concept of a marriage based on love is somewhat scary, although she hears again and again that this is the "modern" method to a happy marriage. Her daughter Betti seems to agree, as she shows no interest in her middle class companions; she only loves the painter Holle. To once again restore family harmony, Mr. Buchholz sends his wife and daughters to Helgoland. But Wilhelmine has to return early to Berlin to look after things while Betti and Holle continue onward. On Helgoland, they secretly marry.