Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna.

A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.

74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire.