- The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threatens to bring all Parnell's plans to ruin. Moderately accurate historically
- After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler (Johannes Silber-Schneider) flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, …