1949 West German film by Helmut Weiss

Christian Kempenich, a pedantic law firm manager, attends a christening in Cologne, leading to a boozy night. He wakes up in a stranger’s bed and is accused of stealing bed linen from the hotel. Meanwhile, his wife Hedwig had her own fling and wants to keep it secret. When she learns of Christian’s predicament, she reveals her affair during a heated discussion. Realising their marriage is at risk, they decide to work on their relationship.

A drama directed by Paul Verhoeven.

Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a businessman, and a stenographer. Events intertwine the lives of these strangers, bringing them together for some dramatic moments.

A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.

1927 silent film by Curtis Bernhardt

Kurt Hoffmann's remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz.

1962 film by Imo Moszkowicz

1934 film by Robert A. Stemmle

A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way.

1957 film by Kurt Meisel

A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance go hunting behind thirteen chairs from which of a 100,000 DM contains which the rich aunt has hidden there.

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.

A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.

Als naiver aber stets korrekter Buchhalter plagt Pipin die Eifersucht. Seine Frau hat offenbar ein Verhältnis mit einem Sänger, der zur Untermiete bei ihnen wohnt. So bleibt es nicht aus, dass er in seiner Nervosität einem Geldboten 300 Mark zuviel auszahlt. Als er den Fehler bemerkt, ist es zu spät. Pipin fürchtet um seinen gutbürgerlichen Ruf und seinen Arbeitsplatz und setzt alle Hebel in Bewegung, um das Geld zurückzubekommen. Unbeholfen und planlos, wie er dabei vorgeht, steht er schon bald im Mittelpunkt eines inszenierten öffentlichen Skandals um eine prominente Sängerin und hat nun alle Hände voll zu tun auch noch seine von seiner Unschuld überzeugen zu müssen. Denn die erfährt von der vermeidlichen Affäre ihres Mannes aus der Zeitung...

Professional race driver David and the owner of a plantation on island Java Filip – bosom friends. For the sake of strong friendship they have sworn each other that will never fall in love and look after the same girl. Once, during the next transatlantic swimming, Filip gets acquainted with blond Violoj who thirsts to marry and tries to receive from it a declaration of love. But Filip is afraid of marriage and evades the question. Having stepped into a land, the planter unexpectedly learns that its friend David in spite of the fact that it is betrothed with beauty Gabi, has taken notice of Violu and periodically visits its smart apartment. After serious conversation guys decide that they should stop all meetings with the maiden differently to their friendship “kaput”, but Viola adheres to other sights at the future and does everything to arrange the happiness…

Wealthy inn proprietor Adlgasser supports his daughter Hansi and her husband Paul who is a composer with a loan, so he would be able to earn his living with a "real" profession. But instead investing in a big farm, the young couple decided to spend the money for the production of a new operetta he is writing. The husband's friend Peter helps them pretending that Paul is the owner by sending farm products to the inn. But when the quality of the products are becoming low-grade, their father gets suspicious and decides to visit the estate to have a look upon of what is going on there. At the same time Peter's aunt Adele is going to visit her nephew the farm owner to look after the progress he has made to marry his sweetheart. After arrival Paul is introduced as the custodian and Hansi as just married wife of Peter to aunt Adele and vice versa Peter as custodian the the father-in-law. How will this mess end up?

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lived above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
Had some unfavourable reviews, but it's a movie, it's make believe and it's fun. (Bamboo)

This old austrian-czech stories provided the story for the 'honest' soldier Schwejk, who arranges life to his own, not honest, but 'honest'. This movie gives an insight of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy with its many ethnies and attitudes before WW 1. Rühmann starres charming and smiling, like in other movies.