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"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.

After a thirty-year career on international variety stages, the famous clown Grock retires, marries and buys a villa on the Mediterranean. But Grock remains a clown and is so immersed in the work on his new home that his young wife is soon reunited with her former lover. Grock reappears in a traveling circus with his old partner Max and his world-famous act and is a sensational success. Grock's career continues.

Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her. With her help, he breaks through as a composer in Paris and becomes a famous man overnight. Now Constantia may have lost him, but the world of music has won him.

To get her young mother to pay more attention to the husband as well as the children, an 18 year old stages her own kidnapping.

Composer Bertl is a heavy drunkard and generously spends his wife's money. Her lawyer tries to arrange a quick divorce for the couple and thus save the rest of her account.

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.

Simultaneously filmed Czech language version of a German film, in which an unhappy dogcatcher in the poor part of town has a transformative experience befriending an abandoned boy and a stray animal.

Young music composer Viktor Honzl in vain looks for work. He is prevented from committing suicide by a technician of the gasworks who shortly beforehand has disconnected his gas due to past due bills. In the disguise of an older, serious, musical scholar Viktor obtains work in a music publishing house. So he may court Eva, publisher Durdys's daughter, who he likes quite a bit, he recommends to the owner that he also employ his nephew. Understandably, this is he himself, in his every-day form. For Viktor, however, this becomes an extremely complicated situation as he switches in the place of business from the clothes of the uncle and then back again from the clothes of Viktor the nephew.

He, Alois Pech, a doctor of philosophy, is a fierce and independent mother's pet who works as a prison librarian. She, Marcela Johnová, is a confident, energetic and successful girl from high society. While she lives in the big world, surrounded by luxury and admirers, he lives a quiet, modest life with his caring mother. They are introduced by a completely random late-night phone call from one of Marcela's guests in her apartment. Although she finds the pleasantly awkward man primarily an amusing diversion in her life of pleasure, Alois falls in love with the girl and begins to seek out opportunities for further encounters.

Alois Kohout is a high school professor, a despotic family tyrant and a creep before whom everyone trembles in panic terror. And yet there is a man who manages to knock the professor's pride off its perch, restore his family's freedom, and, what's more, take the professor's daughter to a peaceful marital haven.

Notorious gambler Toni and his wife hit a low point when he loses all their money. Their lawyer Werkmann initiates a plan to hire penniless Anny to pose with Toni in a compromising situation, thus creating a sufficient cause for a divorce.

Vehicle for the popular Austrian comic Hans Moser, as a dogcatcher in the poor part of town whose life changes when he befriends an abandoned youth and a stray animal.

A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer.She's also interested in having a child.

A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.

At the center of the plot are the fates of two sisters, Jirina and Zofka, who find themselves from the countryside in the metropolitan environment of Prague and learn about its dark side when they get into the company of the dubious existence of the suburban brothel, fake gamblers, pimps and hiders. Among them is also the director of the factory, Jirina's benefactor. There is a fight and police intervention in the gambling den. Zofka tries to save her seducer and return him to an honest life. But fate decided otherwise, perhaps better for all involved.

A young composer thinks he will make a better impression at a publishing house by pretending he is his uncle, a professor.

Poor girl turns the no-good son of her employer to a man.

Wealthy bachelor Pavel Haken (Hugo Haas) attempts with the assistance of his trustworthy valet to escape the wooings of single women itching to get married. These women have meetings at a lady's social club. They propose to Andula (Vera Ferbasová), daughter of a poor taxi driver, a lucrative bet that even she will not win him.

Oskar, George and Fred are fed up with their existence and long for a vagabond life in the nature. They pitch their tent at a lake when suddenly Vera appears. She has escaped from a traveling circus and all three men are impressed by her and want her in different ways. Oskar is most successful with Vera, but soon hostility grows among the three buddies.

Fortuna and Amorosa, the protector of true love, make a bet with the devilish spirit Lumpacivagabundus that should finally bring the devil down.

A new professor, the shy and impractical Karel Suchý, enters the girls' grammar school. From the very beginning, he becomes the object of the quadruple interest of the girls. In inventing alliterations, he is led by Vera Matysová, the niece of the landlady with whom the young professor lives. The dissolute student bets with the whole class that she will get a kiss from the new teacher.

An unsentimental and yet touching story of a man whose insincere desire for love leads him to fall prey to the profiteering trappings of his neighbor and her daughter.