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- Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
- Confessions of impostor Felix Krull.
- The movie explains Germany from 1913 until 1955 by example of two contrary characters: The idealistic journalist Hans (H.-J. Felmy) loses his work during the Third Reich, whereas opportunist Bruno (R. Graf) makes career to himself in the NSDAP party. After World War II ended, Bruno manages to be indispensable to the US administration and becomes a successful and well respected businessman, despite his Nazi-past. At the same time, Hans tries to earn a living on the countryside. But one day a time will come when both men will meet again.
- Hans Schnier has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism.
- Tonio is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks.
- First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid-19th-century Germany.
- The crooked Sabri, manager for the female dancers of the Seven Blue Stars are booked at the Alhambra in Tangier. Cilly find out about Sabri's shady plans and is now found dead in the harbor. Sabri have the girls passports in his pocket.
- Literary adaptation: An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.
- A young man and a woman about to commit suicide by jumping into a river, recount to each other their experiences of the Second World War and the struggles of the immediate post-war situation.
- A glamorous crime novelist is invited to a remote country house where an escaped killer is at large.
- Ingrid, a young and inexperienced girl, is elected "Miss Mannequin". The photojournalist Walter is happy because he is her friend, the journalist Robert, because he senses a good story.
- In a desolate, destroyed landscape - bearing now irrelevant traces of technological society - a man and a boy try to find their way under a fierce sun.
- An ambitious photo-journalist creates his own stories to get sensational scoops.
- A story of the Resistance during the Second World War.
- A great love arises between a young drawer and a newspaper editor 's daughter,Céline .
- The story of a first love will always be tainted with all the wishes and errors of being young, it will always begin with a gentle encounter, an unexpected timid happiness and will end with a disappointing experience.
- Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th-century Germany.
- Short documentary about the German Protestant lay meeting (i.e. Kirchentag) in Berlin in July 1951, on the verge of the Cold War. The motto of the gathering was "Wir sind doch Brüder" meaning "We are brothers".