A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them…

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar…