Eva Schmid-Kayser

On a steamer bound for Europe two competing European investors try to get hold of a contract for exploiting oil wells in Brazil. Several agents cleverly play off one investor against the other to up the ante of a bogus scheme.

A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.

A young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery.

Operetta diva Tilla Morland is celebrating her latest stage success with her friends at the Carlton Bar. At everyone’s request, she begins to sing the show’s main hit. While she is singing, a young man ostentatiously leaves the bar. Tilla cannot forget this incident, which she finds outrageous, and to her surprise, she recognizes the very same patron in her newly hired secretary, Ulrich Weidenau.

This is essentially a "Kraft durch Freude" propaganda film though the organization is never mentioned. A company's three day outing might very well be the last because bankruptcy is just around the corner. The people on the trip have all their individual problems and wishes, too. This episodic film might sound quite promising considering the basic idea but its script is determinedly optimistic and leads everything and anything to a happy end. The dramatic parts are finished in a rather implausible way, the comedic are terribly predictable. There's a badly misjudged singing scene in the bus, some bavarian shtick, the Regensburger Domspatzen are singing in Augsburg and so on...

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.