The pianist Else returns to Sweden after a world tour. Her father John welcomes her with an event. But the dinner is disturbed by a flight alarm. The country has been occupied by a foreign power and their leader is Major Rolf Von Ritter.

Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.

About a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

Dostoyevsky's novel is one of world literature's most filmed works. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.

Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.