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- Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which new elements are combined with features (and a few lines) familiar from Shakespeare's version of the legend. The most important of these changes sees Hamlet made into a female character - a princess forced to masquerade as a man by her scheming mother; from this follows Hamlet's secret passion for Horatio and rivalry with Ophelia for his love. Queen Gertrude is here presented as conspiring in her first husband's murder, and the old king's ghost does not appear - young Hamlet merely hears a voice from the tomb and (apparently) dreams of him. In addition, Hamlet now kills Claudius (in a fire) immediately upon returning from Norway with an army led by old school- friend Fortinbras, and it falls to Gertrude to engineer Hamlet's death in the fencing match as well as kill herself by accidentally drinking the poisoned wine.
- A sequel to 1940's "Bismarck", Bismarck is dismissed by an under-pressure Wilhelm II. Then the treaty with Russia is in peril as the leader is left with the dilemma of who could complete Bismarck's work.
- A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restaurateur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice.
- All men are under lovely Maritza's spell.Tired of working for the old woman Yelina, who forces her to cajole customs officials to help the smugglers, she flees and finds work at Mrs. Avricolos' farm.
- This Alpine thriller is based on the story of English climber Edward Whymper who vies with Jean-Antoine Carrel, an Italian mountain guide, to conquer the Matterhorn.
- Guido Gurlino, head of the Pisan army, wants the Florentine Maddalena Pazzi, but she rejects him, in love with Vitelli, head of the Florentine armies. Gurlino then kidnaps young Giovanna and makes her his wife. When, during a duel, Vitelli is wounded, he will be healed by Giovanna, whom the Pisans call Monna Vanna and whom she worships as an angel for her kindness.
- Brecht makes use of a dramatic situation to show how Teresa Carrar, the wife of a fisherman, intends to keep her two sons from going off to war. She fails, because for the fascists the worker's cap that her oldest son wears when he goes fishing is a sufficient reason for shooting him as a suspected red. Those aren't human beings, Señora Carrar concludes, That's leprosy, and it has to be eradicated. She hands out the rifles that she had hidden from the fascist forces, and together with her younger son she herself heads for the front.
- Oscar Wilde adaptation ,a satire of British society, in which the father of a bastard son returns after two decades in India and challenges the son who doesn't know him to a duel over a woman they both want.
- During the Napoleonic era, a German renegade fights against the French invaders and those locals who are friendly to them.
- A lawyer passes himself off as a famous tenor, and makes the conquest of the secretary of a theatrical impresario who is in jail.
- Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. The film depicts the cruelty of poverty and communism as a rescuing force that reaches Mutter Krause and the child too late.
- When his wife storms out of a dinner planned for his American boss (because their dog is not allowed at the table) an engineer substitutes his secretary and pretends she is the wife.
- Musical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss.
- Singer Friedel wants star tenor Lauri Volpi to give her lessons but gets the impression that lawyer Paladino is the artist himself. Paladino falls in love with the girl, doesn't tell her the truth and enjoys a Roman holiday with her.
- Part 1 of a four part series of biographical films about king Friedrich II of Prussia focuses on his early life, his love of music and his father's displeasure with it.
- Part 4 of a four part series of biographical films about the Friedrich II of Prussia shows the king as the man who leads the Prussian army to the ultimate victory in the seven-years-war.
- Part 3 of a four part of biographical films about Friedrich II of Prussia. Friedrich befriends the French philosopher Voltaire and he realizes a long held dream by building the castle of Sanssouci.
- Harriet von Randow is a extravagant woman who leads a carefree life. But her reckless husband Kurt has already wasted the funds and is deeply in debt. Accused of forgery he disappears and Harriet is left penniless.