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 petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, ...

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

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

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

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

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

Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...

We have linguists, we have literary men, we have newspapers, actors, musicians, but we have no natio...

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Sándor Barinkay joins the gypsies en route to his home village hiding his real identity as an Hungar...

Marci is drafted from a typical block building in the 6th district in Pest. He says good-bye to Juli...

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

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

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

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

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...

In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou...

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last mo...

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beaut...