Gerhard Hartig

Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'.

Set on the deserted North Sea island of Langeness, a lonely woman begins an affair with a stranger; only after he is identified as a political fugitive and deported does she begin to learn about his true identity and his past.

Harry, a timpanist and pyromaniac, and Ginamove into the same apartment due to Hamburg's housing shortage. This is the beginning of a wonderful enmity, with Harry, who has been tried and tested in marital warfare, and relationship terrorist Gina proving to be quite equal opponents.

A young couple gets married. Michael is a photographer, Marianne is the model. Shortly after the wedding, Marianne goes to the Parisian street prostitution, where she has much success, while the marriage slowly falls apart.

Hans Engler is a reserved man from Hamburg with no family or partner. When his acquaintance Agnes asks him to assume paternity for her daughter Martina, he cannot refuse her the favor. When Agnes dies a short time later, Hans Engler is drawn into a violent conflict with Martina's biological father, which quickly becomes life-threatening for him.

Three girls from Hamburg become stars in an unusual way. Annabella is a poor girl who meets a porn producer who promises her the lead role in his latest big budget erotic movie. Marianne is a young medical student who pays her bills by working in a local bar. One day she gets noticed. Susanne is a hustler, who's approached by a shady photographer who asks her to pose for him for an erotic photo spread. However, he might actually be a pimp and his business might be just a cover for a prostitution ring.

Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pimp, sending his naive girlfriend out onto the streets thinking she is financing their middle-class future. When he becomes involved with an old pal, Nil, he increases his criminal portfolio. But when he steals Nil's girlfriend and things heat up, he leaves for his sister's middle-class home in Berlin, where his attempts to fit in are doomed from the start. Returning to Hamburg, he starts a rapid decline that delivers him into the waiting arms of Nil, whose revenge is merciless.

When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.

Claudia lives with her boyfriend in London. She wants to go and visit her family in Europe She engages in a sexual encounter on the ferry on the way over, and then we see various members of her family also engaging in various activities, Finally there is a big orgy when she gets back.

Poor Mario is an orphan who had served in the foreign legion. Now he works for a night club owner and gangster who runs a human trafficking operation. Mario is in love with Cora the girlfriend of the boss. Our hero plans to take the girl and leave the city of Hamburg and straight to the Bermudas. Will there be trouble ahead?