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- Jupiter descends from Olympus to Greek Thebes, where in disguise he seduces the wife of one of the men who are away at war.
- A woman married to a fertilization firm representative discovers that she is pregnant the same day she discovers that her husband is sterile.
- 1647, Santiago, Chile. Don Henrico banishes his daughter, Josepha, to a convent when he learns she loves Jeronimo, a mestizo who's a teacher in the household. The lovers meet in secret, a child is born, the pair are condemned to die, and prelates scheme to seize Don Henrico's fortune. A moment before Josepha's public execution, an earthquake devastates Santiago. Josepha finds her baby and flees the rubble; Jeronimo survives, escapes, and finds her. The reunion brings joy and rebirth. He wants to build a Utopian community, without priests. She believes they can reenter Santiago society, forgiven. Class, race, and religion dictate a world order: is there a place for these lovers?
- In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.
- Investigation into alternative didactic methods and the relationship between independently expressive surfaces and texts. The film is composed of five sequences, each preceded by a quotation.
- It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice
- The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
- The film focuses on Kleist himself, torn-up, engulfed in the search for knowledge, for identity and trapped in his loneliness and self-centeredness, bouncing all over walls, grimaces, cruelty, suffering.
- The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. He is court martialled however for disobeying orders and sentenced to death. His love who is now to be betrothed to the King of Sweden, following his execution appeals to the Elector, her uncle, on his behalf, as do his comrades in battle. He must also contend with his own desire to live and conflicting sense of honour.
- Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wive Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.
- This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in shaking down the young man's parents for money.
- After being wrongfully denied justice, a horse trader seeks his own justice on a treacherous rancher.
- A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
- A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay.
- The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
- Edith Clever recites the complete text of The Marquise of O. by Heinrich von Kleist.
- A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
- A Canadian anthology series presenting one-hour dramas of romance, adventure, and mystery. Produced in Toronto for CBC and ABC, titled "General Motors Presents" in Canada. Starring Patrick Macnee, Barry Morse, and William Shatner.
- A requiem for the now-defunct German state of Prussia.
- Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
- Life and death, love and war, self and community, are reflected.