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- Eva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
- Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
- Sherlock Holmes must find someone to impersonate King Fernando XXIII of Puerto Rico, but the double he chooses doesn't prove to be as manageable as the great detective could have hoped.
- A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
- Hungarian peasant Julika is discovered by an impresario in a hamlet, soon gaining fame as dancer and gifted singer. In Berlin she leaves the train to escape his attentions, meets a young composer and his friends and tries to help him.
- Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.
- Poetic folk tale, set in the beautiful Czech countryside, of two 14-year-olds who fall in love.
- Small stories from a grammar school.
- The ruler of a Ruritanian kingdom falls in love, in this Weimar era operetta.
- Alfred Redl (Emil Artur Longen), a colonel on the Austrian General Staff, leads an extravagant private life. No one suspects that in reality he is passing information to Russian spies. To obtain further information the Russians station agent Levanzová (Marie Grossová) to him, but Redl resists the temptations of the beautiful woman. Levanzová discovers Redl's passionate letters intended for Lieutenant Dolan (Jirí Sedlácek) . Redl is transferred to Prague and he tries to prevent the lieutenant from marrying. The Russians threaten Redl with making public his letters to Dolan and they force him to give away the plans for an attack in Galicia.
- A doctor needs to educate and civilize a young woman before he can marry her.
- Showstar Csibi's mother Maria has a new suitor. In order to make Maria appear younger Csibi poses as a young brat which backfires when she meets the suitor's gorgeous brother and flirts with him while he treats her like a little child.
- Mr. and Mrs. Smíd, parents of the fair-haired Slávinka, are at the peak of their happiness: Slávinka is over her vows and will be marrying her criminal attorney, Anatol Brynda, judge. Anatol may be a beginner and an all-round deer - but what parents wouldn't do for the happiness of an only child. They arranged for the future spouses to have a modern apartment in every way. And the apartment's biggest attraction, of which Papa Smíd is particularly proud, are the modern double beds, one of which, at the flick of a switch, automatically slides out of the bedroom into the study or vice versa. What Papa Smíd doesn't know, however, is that because of this ingenious device, everything turns out completely, completely differently than he imagined.
- The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young woman tries to escape her fate.
- Chief engineer Jirí Gregor lives with his wife Marie in the coal mining region. Their frequent guest is Ing. Petr Lukás, Jirí's friend. One day, however, Petr takes advantage of Gregor's absence and confesses his love to Marie. When he tries to embrace her, Jirí appears.
- The daughter of a landowner saves an aristocratic neighbor from ruin in this operetta adaptation.
- Young village shopkeeper Ferda Zuska wants to throw himself in front of a train because his girl has married another man. At the last moment he is saved by the railway watchman Dousa and his wife Anna. Ferda soon forgets his sorrow and begins to court this Anna. The unsuspecting Dousa is the object of laughter for the entire village. In addition, in saving Ferda he slipped on the railway tracks and since that time he has had poor hearing. One day he even discovers to his horror that he has become completely deaf and for this reason he must leave his job. After some time his hearing returns. Dousa decides to pretend further that he is deaf to find out what people think of him.
- Postman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.
- The story of a cabbie who becomes an unwilling murderer of an unscrupulous seducer.
- Classic comedy with famous Vlasta Burian in the lead role tells us about an undertaker who loves his job very much and who during a wedding which he mistakenly considers as a funeral decides to take advantage of an old man and impersonate him in an insurance deception.
- A farmer opposes his daughter marrying a young music teacher (who a visitor from town also has eyes on) and prefers she marry a rich shopkeeper.The drama culminates with a fire in a barn where the touring Vienna Boys Choir are rehearsing.
- A fortune-teller forecasts for Dr. Prelouc that he will marry the third poverty-stricken little girl he meets. Míla, the daughter of factory owner Janota, likes the doctor and with the aid of his housekeeper Amálka she insinuates herself into his household in the disguise of a poor seller of shoe-laces. She has prepared for her role beforehand by surveying the outskirts of the city where she met Vendelín Pleticha, who became her guide to the local pubs and teacher of the people's speech. Dr. Prelouc is inspired by the poor, uneducated girl and tries to teach her the rudiments of societal behavior, even literary language. Everything goes along until the moment he finds out that Míla is tricking him and that Pleticha is not the father she has passed him off to be.
- Bashful teacher Suchet is harassed by Lucette, a mischievous pupil, whose main amusement is to ridicule him on the one hand and to make him madly in love with her on the other hand. However, after a stay in Paris, Suchet comes back a changed man, elegant and self-assured. Now it's up to Lucette to fall under his spell.
- A reporter who witnesses a murder wants to get a sensational exclusive report for his magazine. He therefore traces the killer on his own, but finds himself under the suspicion that he is the perpetrator of the murder. Chased by the police his world is turned upside down.
- Filomen Dubansky wants to solve his critical financial situation by marrying a wealthy widow. She forces him to go with her to a romantic journey to High Tatras. In his absence the personnel of his manor tries to convert the manor to a profit making hotel.
- A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.