The merchant's daughter Constance asks for a singing, soaring lark, which her father obtains from a lion on the condition that he send the first person he encounters at home to the lion's den.
When a group of goblins save the king from drowning in a swamp, he must promise them his first-born son in exchange. During his captivity, young Prince Irregang completes a series of impossible tasks with some magical help from Maid Miseri, who is also the goblins' prisoner.
The leader of a women's brigade hands out theater tickets for employees and their families. One woman steals a modern suitcoat for her boyfriend because he only owns a leather jacket from the West. Mishaps on their way to Berlin's Volksbühne Theater cause her to tell him the truth.
This documentary about the sports club "SC Motor Jena" focuses especially on relay runner and club member Bärbel Wöckel, who is interviewed about her life path from participation in school sports to her Olympic victories.
A Jewish chief surgeon in Berlin, Professor Mamlock believes in reason, humanism and his country. As 1933 begins, he remains blind to the increasing anti-Semitism around him. He is troubled by those with opposing political views and throws his communist-leaning son out of the house.
When director Slatan Dudow returned from French exile to eastern Germany in 1946, he joined the newly founded DEFA Film Studios. He wanted to release his Weimar-era communist film classic, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World?
When he reaches age 18, Peter is released from the children's home where he grew up, but this does not mean he is truly ready for adult life.
The Chilean Junta orders a Catholic mass in praise of its own accomplishments at the Igesia de la Gratitud Nacional on September 18, 1973. The Cardinal, forced to utter benedictions, resorts to words for all those who suffer and prays that they may be freed and consoled.
During the final weeks of World War II, the eleven-year-old orphan Heinrich sets out on a trek lead by the old fisherman Komarek. When Heinrich is suspected of betraying someone liable for military conscription, Komarek reluctantly takes the boy under his wing.
A childless woman begs Allah to give her a child, even if it is only a pumpkin. When her prayer is answered, she cares for her little pumpkin girl and sends her to school.