Dr. Schön picks up a flower girl, gives her a make-over and marries her off to a rich friend with a weak heart. After the predictable fatality the girl marries an artist who is then driven to suicide. Then Dr. Schön succumbs to her charm himself with no better luck. After a few further affairs the girls ends up penniless in London and is murdered by Jack the Ripper. Based on the same Wedekind plays that served as a basis for Pandora's Box, this looks like a seminal film, midway between Pabst and Fassbinder.

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.

1955 film