Magnificent times are a compilation film held in the form of a historical revue of numbers and composed from historical documentary films, which comprises half a century of German history (1900 to 1950). Willy Fritsch leads through the small framework and speaks the connecting texts that Günter Neumann wrote. Fritsch's Schulze is the archetypal "little man from the people" who blindly adheres to the promises of the respective rulers and constantly desires "glorious times".