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Willem Hendriks is a Dutchman who, after the death of his wife, has emigrated to California where he runs a nightclub. His daughter Louise has been left in the care of well-to-do neighbours, Mr and Mrs van Wijck, whom little Louise believes to be...

Jacob and Simon, a wheelwright's sons, are jealous of their brother Everhard, who finds favour with Rose-Kate. Their father receives a visit from Jan Meerlo, an old-time lover of his wife. The father notices the quarrel between the brothers. He...

The guests at Count Otto von Trepow's East Prussian estate Gross-Ehrenfeld are Lord and Lady Ruthven, Mr Hendriks with his wife and foster-daughter Mariska, a gypsy they adopted years ago, Kundry, the fiancée of Otto's son Bernhard, and Count...

The tragi-comical, real-life story of the man who was perhaps the world's most famous "captain" and whose pranks caused the whole world to laugh.

The elderly shoe-maker Wilhelm Voigt goes to the railway station, where, in a toilet cubicle,...

A poor old fiddler playing his violin in a restaurant is about to be turned out when a diner - himself a famous music-hall artiste - causes him to remain as his guest. The diner tells the manager of the restaurant that, in order to help the old...

Professor Mortman, of the University of Amsterdam, who has discovered a new and powerful explosive powder, one day sees Tiska, a young gipsy girl, being ill-treated by a member of her tribe, Miarko, her step-father. The Professor goes to rescue...

Colonel Brachart's wife Renée is a beautiful and spirited woman. She is with her husband when his new adjutant, Lieutenant Raoul des Vignes of the 10th regiment of hussars, reports to his Colonel. The young woman is not happy with her much older...

The period shown is 1572; the peasants of Holland are rising to throw off the Spanish yoke. Amongst the peasants of Volendam who respond to the call are the two grandsons of a miller named Smulders. The young men bid good-bye to their grandfather...