Count Almaviva's valet Figaro wants to marry the maid Susanna, but their master insists on his right to the first night. Figaro encounters trouble because of an earlier promise of marriage he made to the housekeeper Marzelline.
The so-called "Musical Corner" (Musikwinkel) is located around the towns of Klingenthal, Schöneck und Markneukirchen in the Vogtland region. It gets its name because the area is famous for instrument-making.
For the corpulent nobleman Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as well as swagger and boast about his adventures, particularly those of an amorous nature.
Famous producer Otto Kruse brags that he will produce a successful, new kind of revue film.
As the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs a Bach concert, the screen is slowly dominated by words and phrases: "dear countrymen," "protection and help," "Soviet occupation zone," "not return."
Set during the Thirty Years’ War, in the first half of the 17th century: Anna Fierling, also called Mother Courage, is a merchant with a wagonload of food and goods.
Gustl Wagner’s beloved wife Gerda, a housewife who was fond of singing, has become a star overnight, idolized and surrounded by admirers. Blinded by jealousy, Gustl sinks first to brooding, then sleeplessness, and finally to alcohol.