A grumpy valet takes corrective action with mumbling peevishness in the fortunes of his family household count.

Hans, living in Vienna during the Great Depression, intends to drown himself in the river after losing his livelihood. While there he meets a girl named Anna after pulling her from the river.

Up till now, Eri Bel and Heinz Marius were a happy couple only on the movie screen. Now, however, the successful film stars want to be a happy couple in real life. After the next film they star in together, the whole thing should be a reality.

Thea can't pay her bill, so the hotel manager forces her to impersonate a countess to draw business to the hotel. Then Thea and lawyer Michael meet and fall in love but he insists he could marry only a strictly law-abiding woman.

An aging musician looks back on his life, his roots in a country village, his loves, and his brief imprisonment.

When young Dr. Ophoven arrives at the village as the new doctor, he is not exactly welcome. His wife Anna helps to break the ice. Their happiness is cut short when she dies. But the doctor is determined to stay and fulfill his obligation.

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.

Monika, the only daughter of Maximilian and Fränze Holten, becomes engaged to lawyer Thomas Hesse. Her mother is happy because he is a man like Maximilian, her husband. His father-in-law now gives him the delicate task of protecting singer Alexandra Durran from annoying admirers. Theater director Rother behaves particularly conspicuously in this regard.