Adele Sandrock – MRQE

Amphitryon

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene’s husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter’s wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.

The Congress Dances

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.

Ein Walzer für dich

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.

Der Flüchtling aus Chicago

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Werner Dux, heir of the big car company “Dux-Werke”, is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he learns from his friend Michael Nissen that his father has died recently. That means that the Dux-Werke are without a leader at the moment, for Werner’s cousin Steffie, who is his co-heiress, is still too young to run the firm. In this situation, Werner convinces his friend Michael, who is an engineer by profession, to take over the firm as long as he is in jail and to pose as him. Michael agrees and is able to bring the firm up again. He even arranges a reliability test for motorcycles via Istanbul, Rome and Barcelona, which creates a big Turkish order for the company. When the real Werner escapes from jail and arrives in Germany, it looks as if the whole story is up to bust. But Werner needs money, so he convinces Michael to go on as before and hand over all profits of the firm to him.

Ihre Majestät die Liebe

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred’s lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.

Morgenrot

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally “morning-red”) is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise. On patrol Captain Liers and his submarine crew sink an important British ship, but while returning to harbour, they’re lured into a trap by a British vessel disguised as a neutral Danish one. They sink it after it attacks them without warning, but while they prepare to rescue survivors, a British destroyer sinks the sub. On the sea bed 60 feet down, with all but the bridge flooded, the 10 surviving crew have only 8 rescue devices. Liers orders the crew to use them, but they disobey – either all escape or nobody does.

Friederike

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on Franz Lehar’s operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in love with.

Der Schrecken der Garnison

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Skandal um Eva

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy’s foster-parents to make his acquaintance.