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- Parade of gaily decorated floats, etc., through the streets of Zurich, Switzerland.
- "Misery and Fortune of Women", is a portrait about abortion and the realities of women from different backgrounds. Eisenstein captures stories revolving abortion (desired process or others that aren't but end up happening) and the harsh contrasts of a wide social abyss faced by women who have the conditions to go to a hospital and the ones who risk their lives in unsafe places.
- Semi documentary co sponsored by several organizations combatting sexually transmitted infections: three stores of people who become infected with syphilis, "the enemy in the blood."
- Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.
- This featurette made for the Swiss Socialist Party follows alternately a day in the life of five modest people encountering various problems at work, even losing their job for two of them, before joining a protest march.
- Jakob Stäubli gives up his business in the boondocks to look up his daughter Nelly, who moved to Zurich against his will. There he must contend with the temptations of the big city, as well as with his daughter's treacherous fiancé.
- Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship, while the rest of the world is at strife, though a conflict arises when the daughter of one (a rich trader) falls in love with the son of another (a lowly tailor).
- It is August 1, 1914. There is excitement in Master Wiederkehr's hairdressing salon. The local council, the notary, the butcher and other customers discuss the shocking news that Wiederkehr's daughter Rosa has just brought to the house: there is a war. Germany, Belgium and Russia have declared mobilization. The French troops are at the border. The young hairdresser Wipf then experiences his first crucial life experiences during the horrors of war.
- In the village of Gerzenstein, the pre-trial detainee Erwin Schlumpf wants to commit suicide. He is accused of having murdered the merchant Wendolin Witschi. Sergeant Jakob Studer from the Cantonal police can save Schlumpf at the last moment. For the investigating magistrate, Dr. Steffen, the suicide attempt is like a confession. Studer, on the other hand, has serious doubts about Schlumpf's guilt.
- While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how to respond she forwards the letters to a new young school teacher to use his answers instead...
- The gynecologist Paul Ferrat founder of a home for children of single mothers and is an avowed opponent of abortion. But then his 17-year-old daughter Edith is dragged into a nightclub made drunk and abused.
- A few leagues from Seldwyla, in the Zurich countryside, two children, Sali Mantz and Vreneli Marti, form an inseparable pair of playmates. Unfortunately, their farming parents, who have always been friends, are at odds with each other over the purchase of an adjoining field.Sali and Vreneli don't see each other again until much later and fall in love, but their parents still hate each other fiercely. Despite everything, the young couple will try to live their forbidden love.
- Matthias is the illegitimate son of a factory worker. The child, who has been separated from public life, lives in the house of his aunt, who often mistreats him and barely takes care of his maintenance. After the death of his cousin, the boy escapes from home in search of his mother.
- About the daughter of the couple who ran the Hôtel de la Gare de Courgenay, in the Canton of Jura. In 1915, the composer Hanns In der Gand was staying in the region and in 1917 he composed La Petite Gilberte, immortalizing the young girl's empathy with the soldiers.
- A company of select people joins the horse-driven coach for crossing the center of the Alps over the traditional path high on the mountain valley. It is the time of railways as the means of modernization. A tunnel is going to be built. The new fast way would render useless the small transport industry from which local people had made their living. The great mountainous landscape is the background for the conflicts which arise between rich and poor, local traditionalists and foreign modernizers. The daughter of a local, who is opposed against the tunnel, would like to get engaged with a tunnel engineer, but is also coveted by a local favored by her father.
- In Bern above Junkerngasse 54 the caretaker has died - the old Hutzli. On the day on which he was buried, it's started again, this howling in the middle of the night - scary. Since then, no one dares to live there.
- The pastor of a Zurich country parish loves hunting so much that it threatens to rob him of his office and dignity. They hope for help from the famous general, the priest's cousin, who is supposed to put things right with a clever plan.