A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New Year’s Eve, when the family meal is finished, Hanna is in a window while a young man entertains her and talks of the one he loves but can’t join at that time.

Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.

1927 film by Luise Fleck

Ganz Wien träumt von der Liebe. In welch' facettenreicher Art und Weise sich dieser Traum gestalten kann sieht man bei Emma, Alfred, Marie, Karl, Leokardia, Franz und ihren Partnern, die sehnsuchtsvoll nach Liebe dürsten. Wie es der Zufall will, kreuzen sich ihre Wege.

Fräulein Else is a 1924 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.t has been adapted intothe German silent Fräulein Else (1928).