Just before the Berlin Wall is built, a young East German worker tries his personal and professional luck as a barkeep in West Berlin. A realistic love story set during Germany’s post-war economic miracle, which here does not fulfil its bright promises.

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.

Postman Meier tells neurologist Professor Dr. Feurich about his problems with the angry master baker Fröhlich. In a flashback, we see how Meier first asks the baker to bake a pretzel in the shape of a 20-centimeter-high B covered in icing. Fröhlich presents him with a Latin B, but Meier is not satisfied because he wants one in German script. When the master baker then hands him a B in Sütterlin script, Meier demands a small b from him that is identical in both fonts. When the b finally turns out satisfactory, Meier eats it immediately.

In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.

Harbour policeman Hans and his companion rescue a young woman from water during their night watch, to find out she is connected with a jewel robbery in which a gangster now owner of an hippodrome, an out jailed one and his mistress now mixed up with an American millionaire weave some obscure plans.

Jimmy Ward infiltrates a criminal gang, only to reveal at the last moment that he is, in fact, none other than an undercover Sherlock Holmes.

When the wealthy Mr. Pitt decides to withdraw a sum in the millions, the Schilling & Co. bank faces ruin. To save it, the authorized signatory Peter Voß stages a break-in in which two million marks are allegedly stolen.

Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.

A girl from the city falls for a country lad, but his aunt has other plans for him.