By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.
Documentary examines the extraordinary success of the Edgar Wallace series in Germany: the British writer who provided the inspiration for the films was actually out of fashion worldwide in the 1950s - too old-fashioned, too dignified, too boring. Only in Germany was it different, because there was a need to catch up after the end of the Second World War. The National Socialists had banned crime thrillers in general and Edgar Wallace in particular. With a few exceptions, the Edgar Wallace films were therefore the first since the expressionist films...
The lieutenant Fraser is expelled from the army for saving the honor of his Superior. Since this gratefulness uses him as chauffeur in his familiar mansion. There it knows Lady Claire.
Henry Farland moves to the country with his wife Allison and daughter - to live with Jack, his benefactor. He is increasingly forcing his life ideas on the young family. Allison suffers greatly from this situation, but Henry enjoys this life to the fullest and even begins an affair with his childhood friend. But then Christopher suddenly appears in Allison's life, desperately looking for a donor for his leukemia-stricken son...
Horse lover Paul Scheibner has dedicated himself to an unprofitable art: The young man wants to become a rider at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. When his uncomprehending girlfriend Regina leaves him for a nouveau riche hotelier's son, he finds solace with the animal-loving stud secretary Julia. But then his beloved stallion “Maestoso” suddenly falls ill and is to be sold.
Karin Dor (born February 22, 1938, Wiesbaden, Germany) was a German actress who became popular in the 1960s playing heroines in Edgar Wallace and Karl May movies. She starred in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz. Dor was born as Kätherose Derr. She was married to George Robotham, a U.S. stunt-director, from 1988 until his death in 2007. The couple lived in Los Angeles and Munich. Her previous marriage was to Harald Reinl (1954–68); she had a child by that marriage. In 2008 she was back on stage again in Munich in Man lebt nur dreimal ("You Only Live Thrice"). She died in Munich on 6 November 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karin Dor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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