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The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.
When city doctor Jan Vahlfeldt inherits his eccentric uncle’s rural practice, he must also take on its quirky long-time assistant, Anna Michels. Adapting to country life and her unconventional ways, Jan faces a series of humorous challenges before claiming his inheritance.
The coastal skipper Hein Butendörp marries his Alma head over heels because there is a baby on the way. The parents of the girl from a "better family" are bitterly angry about this "improper" liaison: they had completely different plans for their pretty daughter. Butendörp and his young wife live in an old boatman's cottage. Hein saves as much as he can to replace his outdated ship with a modern coaster. But for all her good intentions, the young sailor's wife Alma is getting in over her head with housekeeping. Soon she has run up so many debts that the bailiff is at the door. In dire need, she asks her parents to visit her. Then Hein Butendörp returns unexpectedly from the sea. Her mother-in-law is determined to get even with him...
Commissioner Brockmann's criminal investigation is prompted by the body found by the cleaner Erna Pieper, which turns out to be very mobile! She disappears and reappears, causing considerable confusion among the survivors. The inspector and the cleaner get into a fierce competition to solve the case. The expert and the naively clever dilettante engage in a veritable battle of applied detective story logic. Which professionally proud expert likes it when a "little woman from the street" keeps messing up his work with her uneducated, "common sense" - and is successful at the same time...
Karl Nass and Jonny Tetens are captain and helmsman on a long voyage. When their shipowner Christiansen sells all his ships in order to have a modern container fleet built, Karl and Jonny bridge this waiting period as landlords of the sailors' pub "Kap Hoorn". One day, the shipowner's pretty little daughter Irmgard appears at "Uncle" Karl's because she has left home and her father wants to marry her off to a rich business friend in order to save his container building program financially. Under the mask of clumsiness and unattractiveness, she hides from her father's inquiries. Jonny falls in love with her. The father still gets the missing million.
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Worker becomes boss of his company through inheritance.
The grocer Karsten Kray, a widower in his prime, is being hunted: four women have set out to steer him into the harbor of a second marriage. His drinking companion Asmus Broihan, a coffee broker and bachelor with an in-depth knowledge of the establishments of "Sankt Liederlich", is completely against it. Both day and night, he is ready and eager to chase his friend Kray through the amusements of the world-famous entertainment district. He is prepared to use almost any means to thwart the plans of the boisterous ladies.
Otto Sanftleben has had enough of the nudity on display everywhere in the big city of Hamburg. So he returns to the LĂĽneburg Heath. But there are now naked people there too - and his filmmaker colleague is also very interested in capturing the naked girls with his camera...
The perfectly healthy widow Lieselotte Ă–lkers and the widower Walter Johannsen meet in Dr. Bolt's waiting room. While chatting about incurable diseases, incompetent doctors and ineffective medication, they become closer. Their children think this late love is silly childishness. Sex and love in old age? Impossible. A vehement argument between young and old begins.
Vicky and Robert are getting married in a week's time. Surely everything would take its normal course if it weren't for this tricky matter of an official document. Robert's mother insists on seeing Vicky's parents' marriage certificate. After all, the son is supposed to marry into an orderly relationship. But it's like a spell. The important document is and remains untraceable. An embarrassing suspicion arises: Was Rudolph and Ella Borchers' marriage perhaps not legally valid?
The nightclub "Zum Klabautermann" in St. Pauli is a cheerful place where people like to meet. Every evening, when the two bargemen wrap the guests in sailor's yarn as supposed sailors on a long voyage and Lotti, known as "Das laufende GlĂĽck", knits the clientele, things get very lively. Can landlady Hermine prevent a competitor from poaching her "artistic" staff...?
When the Paris airport management is informed by telephone that there is a time bomb on board a Canadian Atlantic Airways plane to Montréal, they initially believe it is a bad joke. But the caller answers again. Inspector Bignon gets involved...
The village tailor Witt has been burgled, and he himself has received a nasty blow to the head! The seriousness of the crime means that the gendarme in charge does not investigate the case alone - the new head of the district is eager to take over. The head of the parish, Kreyenborg, slyly supports the criminal investigation by getting help from his servant Willem, a man of "plietscher Dröhnbüdeligkeit (a charmingly clever annoyance)". The young vet Renken is also happy to help him, which his daughter Lena warmly welcomes. After confusing statements from Trina, the tailor's wife, the question arises: is there something to cover up?
Norbert and Traute get married and are now looking for a home. He is an accountant and doesn't attach much importance to things that are desirable to many others - the main thing is to live well and celebrate the festivals as they fall. She is a typist and is only used to cleanliness and correctness at home. For financial reasons, she cannot afford her own apartment for the time being. Either the rent is too high or the building cost subsidy is too high. So the young couple decide to live with Traute's parents for the time being. However, Norbert, who grew up in completely different circumstances, leaves after ten months. In order to keep her husband, Traute decides to live with him at his parents' - but that doesn't work out either.
Frugality can be a virtue, but for Schneider Nörig this virtue seems to have turned into avarice. For him, pancakes with two kinds of jam are a reprehensible luxury. He prefers to put the money aside, or rather put it in his piggy bank. It is therefore not surprising that Schneider Nörig has to prevent the marriage of his youngest daughter to an almost penniless craftsman. Neighbor Krup seems to be a promising candidate and a good match in his eyes. Money could come into the family if Nörig were to marry Krup's sister...
Having been disappointed by her first marriage, Annegret KlĂĽver, the young widow of a farmer, is a long way from remarrying. Tina Petersen takes advantage of this: The experienced maid guards the young farmer's wife like a watchdog at every turn, especially against unwanted male visitors. The "Weiberhof" thus becomes a lonely farmstead run by just two women...
The cozy harbor pub "Störtebeker" is run by the ship's cook Karl Brammer together with his wife Mary. One day Karl is caught in a small smuggling operation and is sent to prison for three months. Mary prefers to conceal the truth and tells him that her husband is back at sea. But then fate strikes: the supposed ship goes down with man and mouse and everyone who believes they can inherit something from Karl storms Mary's house. With so much "sympathy" from the grieving relatives, the man believed to be dead has to put things in order himself.
With his human nature and good-natured character, Police Master Johannes Wilke has everything under control. For this reason, he can afford to enjoy a glass of schnapps and play chess on the phone while on duty. Both his colleague Benthin and Pastor Petersen are not at all happy with such an approach to the job. But when a floater, a naked bather and a thieving tipple brother turn up, Wilke puts his beloved chessboard to one side...
Editor Peter Rabanser is planning a series on the perfect cash heist, which he plans down to the last detail and actually begins to prepare: He befriends two cash couriers and lays the groundwork to lure them into an apartment he has rented.
Eight days before the wedding, Ute Forster falls in love with another man. At least that's what Mrs. Engel claims. With her clairvoyant prediction, she causes considerable confusion, as the preparations for this important event have of course already been made. But Mrs. Engel is not only a blind fortune teller, she also knows her way around Cupid's winding paths...
A big change is on the horizon in a small northern German community. The local council agrees that the village needs a doctor, a properly qualified doctor of medicine. But where to put the doctor and practice? There is only one option: The house of midwife Mathilde Jansen, which belongs to the municipality. Midwives are becoming unfashionable anyway. Although she is forced to vacate her home as a result of the change that has been decided, the midwife goes along with it. Mathilde herself gets involved in the search for a doctor. The local council is soon in for a rude awakening. Midwife Jansen, known as "Mother Griepsch" in the old North German dialect, has all too wilfully bungled the local politicians.
14-year-old Uli has only recently moved to Hamburg with his mother. His favorite place is the harbour. One day, he makes the acquaintance of fisherman Jens, who is shunned by many because he killed his best friend several years ago.
Sculptor Max Kolbe has rented a room with the Käselau family as a "furnished gentleman" to escape his love-struck bride and to work in peace for an exhibition. But he is not safe from anything in this tenement: the women's lives seem to be dominated by gossip, curiosity and envy. But the men are no better! Kolbe's false name and his actions arouse the strongest suspicions in the house: why doesn't he go to work? Is he doing shady business? What are the young ladies looking for with him?
In the sailors' pub "Die Königin von Honolulu" in Hamburg's St. Pauli district in 1910, the sailors are sitting grumpily and pestering their wages master, Krischon Honolulu, to finally get them a ship, as their coffers are at low tide. Then the sailor Scharli appears and reports that an American luxury yacht has arrived, owned by the millionaire William Thomson, a "madman" and misogynist who throws his money around. Eight sailors are wanted for a voyage around the world, including to Honolulu.
