Отцы и дети

Based on a story told by George Johnson, featuring Booker T. Washington. Only four minutes survive.

A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.

A fortune teller helps a woman gain the affections her beloved, with deathly consequences.

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.

A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army.

The story of a young woman living in the wilderness.

A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.

In a circus, visitor who has just fallen for the “gypsy” dancer Militza is stabbed by a jealous clown, Bajazzo. Militza escapes to the country village of Marienhagen, finding shelter in the house of a local Catholic priest. The priest also falls for Militza. When he is subsequently struck dead by a bolt of lightning one evening during Mass, his mother blames Militza and has her cast out of the village. Militza joins a theatrical troupe whose married leader is disappointed with the general lack of artistic talent and begs Militza to leave with him. Militza refuses, and instead flees on her own. Onboard a ship, she is surprised to encounter the leader of the troupe again. The ship sinks, he dies. She is rescued by a nobleman who takes her to his country estate. Here she finds peace and true love. When the dead priest’s vengeful mother learns that Militza is alive, she kindles fear and superstition among the villagers, who stone Militza to death.

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.