Netherlands

Moving drama set in a fishing village, based on Herman Heijermans’ well-known play.

People in his village have made the gullible farmer Tinus de Schel believe that he has won the first prize in the lottery, ten thousand guilders. He goes to collect his money, but learns from the local police constable that it will be a couple of hours before the office opens. He falls asleep and dreams about how he will spend his prize, deciding first of all to make a gentleman of himself.

Henry Wilmore, the "lord of the manor", recalls his son Lennard from Holland to marry Helen Plugenet, an heiress, in order to save the family fortunes.

After some years as a colonial soldier in the Dutch East Indies, Hein, nicknamed Oranje Hein, comes home to Amsterdam where Aal has been patiently waiting for him. They soon get into double harness. Hein resumes his profession of shoemaker and is respected throughout the Jordaan as a trump, while his wife becomes known as a grumbler.

Thanks to the Budapester Kinderschutz Liga, a child welfare organization, Marika, the little daughter of a poor family living in the Hungarian village of Mezókövesd, is able to spend a holiday in H

At Castle "De Werve", debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken's daughter and her husband John Mordaunt await the birth of a child.