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- It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's newly-elected president, makes his inauguration speech, he declares Austrian independence and issues an edict ending Austria's financial support for the Global Union. The Global Union President arrives in a flying-saucer with her retinue of world-soldiers, equipped with death-ray guns, to put an end to the rebellion. The president and the country are put on trial. The Austrian president recounts the country's' long battle for peace, and shows how Austria stopped the invasion of the Turks, and gave the world the operetta and the waltz. He organizes a mass parade with flora floats and a brass band playing the Austrian Freedom Song in order to appeal to the court's impartiality. A 1943 document signed by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin and assuring Austria of independence is presented.
- A politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.
- 15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from show-biz, married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick of it and wants to work again. A romantic affair with his stepdaughter Shirley gives him the guts to ask for a role. His former agent gets him one, but it's with a small company in Vienna, Austria. The stress worsens his alcoholism - the tablets he takes to hide the effects lead him to hallucinations. When his wife and girlfriend appear at the same time, he's no longer capable of handling the situation.
- The pasta factory owner and gourmet consul Keyser is looking forward to his summer vacation at the hotel, when his caring daughter Marion condemns him to a stay on the barren Italian island "Isola Piccola" to put him on a better diet.
- The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna to solve the murder of his father. Step by step he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in Secret-Service machinations and chemical-weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much further, to a court hearing during the Third Reich.
- This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were rescued from extinction only by the intervention of the German army.
- One of a series of biography films from WWII Germany, this about early 20th century Austrian politician Karl Lueger, who helped modernize Vienna but whose Christian Social party ,espousing anti Semitism, inspired a young Adolf Hitler.
- A Hungarian estate heiress is to be deprived of her property through a forced marriage. Disguised as a man she flees to her sister in Vienna.
- Count Wolkersheim attends the 1815 Vienna Congress to negotiate,to the Countess joy. Political concerns and music mix in a waltzing city, their apparently opposite attitudes testing their love. Will she behave or will he learn to waltz?
- A troubled father, working as a postmaster in province, worries about his daughter taken to the capital by a rich officer.
- Carl Michael Ziehrer is a young composer who tries to make his way in a Strauss devoted Vienna. When his first opportunity arrives he is encouraged by Mitzi and two of her sisters. He in turn presents them with a waltz, "Wiener Mädeln" (Viennese girls). Then he meets Klara, the eldest sister, and the waltz's lyrics are born. But Klara has other interests. Colourful Austrian operette with Ziehrer waltzes and marches.
- A film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.]
- Three itinerant writers stage an open-air theatre production with Marika (Marika Rokk) as the star. A fire burns their theatre and all is seeminly lost, but one of the group writes a newspaper story and urges the public to contribute to the rebuilding.
- The seedy underbelly of Vienna at night. Mercedes is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer, where they have smuggled a kilo of cocaine through customs. Unfortunately for them, the city has just had a major drug crackdown, leaving them without buyers and money. Disgusted with Rainer, Mercedes ditches him and hooks up with Harry, a lonely and bored cab driver who agrees to help her find a buyer for the drugs so she can get some cash and go home. She offers Harry a deal he can't refuse. Is he just another pawn for Mercedes or will her promises help him achieve his hope and dreams? The story careens through the night streets of Vienna, following two amateurs navigating their way through the treacherous world of the drug trade. It's a mood piece with the backdrop of a stifling urban loneliness.
- Peter and Paul are old friends who happen to meet again. Both are dentists and both want to get married the next day.
- The tribulations of a typical German mother sacrificing and struggling during the Nazi era. Having lost her husband in an accident, she toils as a laundress. When one of her four children may lose an eye, she donates one of her own.
- Crossover love during the Carnival of Venice. Annina, a fisher girl, is in love with Coramello, the personal barber and handyman of the Duke of Urbino, but she suspects that he cheats on her. On the other hand, old senator Delaqua, who hopes for a better position from the Duke, hides his young wife Barbara from him, insofar as Urbino is an unrepentant Don Juan. But he sends him Ciboletta, his servant, whom he introduces to him as his wife. Many other trysts take place and, of course, confusion ensues - until a happy ending in which the right couples find each other again.
- Master Baker Hugo Haase cannot believe that he is the lucky one who inherited a good fortune. Finally he has the possibility to escape from his little province town and his imperious wife to succeed to his estate in Vienna. But naive Hugo is lost in this big city and soon be taken in by a trickster. The attractive Clarissa invites Hugo to spend a day together in Venice, which leads to an unhappy awakening - Clarissa is vanished ...and the money too. The only solution to explain it to his wife is... the flight into a mental hospital!
- A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with Maria, the aristocratic opera manager, end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He is quickly engaged by another theatre and will become famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting of operettas, which start their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.
- This is a story of human struggle for eternal happiness. Teta Linek, a cook at a noble Austrian family Argan, thinks primarily of ways to achieve heavens in the afterlife. In the hope of merciful acts, she helps her nephew, Mojmir, become a priest and sends him a lot of money for years. The problem is, however, that she does not meet him for a long time. But once, when he writes to her about his graduation in seminar, Teta, in her naiveness, travels to Hustopec to help him on his first parish. There, the truth is revealed - Mojmir is not a priest, lives in Prague, and spends the money on something entirely different. Teta starts to blame herself for naiveness and selfishness in heading for her personal happiness. In her despair, she pilgrims to Rome where she hopes to get a redeeming blessing from the Pope. To her relief, the whole group takes part in the audience at Pius XII. Soon after, Teta falls ill and having been rewarded by the Holy Father, she dies full of hope to get a beautiful place in heaven.