Theater director Falke, dressed as a bat, ends up in prison after a merry carnival night. Director Frank only releases him after some time. Falke decides to take revenge on his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein, to whom he owes the whole affair. The annual masked ball at Prince Orlofsky's provides the opportunity. Falke stages a game of mistaken identity in which Eisenstein does not recognize his own wife and courts her, while maid Adele appears as the countess. Eisenstein is duped, Falke has taken his revenge.

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical isla...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with th...

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father....

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

The young ice skating talent, Liesl, lands a part in a new Revue at the Palast Theatre simply becaus...

A musical film based on biographical facts about Clara Wieck's love for composer Robert Schumann (18...

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the ...

Ramesh, the youngest son of a well-to-do family, falls in love with a woman he hears singing on the ...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida,...

Set in North Karelia, whne Antti Ihalainen's house runs out of matches, he goes to borrow some from ...

The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

Don Juan arrives in a Spanish town and immediately becomes embroiled in amorous adventures. While lo...

The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly rel...

In the second half of the 18th century, the young shepherdess Emma accidentally catches the eye of t...