This popular science film from the Popular Encyclopedia series consists of three stories: 1 – How a Newspaper Is Born (a popular account of the various stages of newspaper development and printing); 2 – "Reptiles" (about the different classes of reptiles and their characteristics); 3 – "Rubén Martínez Villena" (a biography of the poet and revolutionary Rubén Martínez Villena).
Munich cab driver Herbert Sponer picks up American businessman Jack Mortimer at the train station. Suddenly Mortimer is shot while driving and Sponer has to try to avoid being suspected as the perpetrator.
The young generation is not very at peace with the morality of their parents. In a story set in a Moravian village, the otherwise contented cooperators indulge in stealing from the common property without seeing anything wrong with such actions.
After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a new job, but also wanted to finally settle down here.
