Albert Bassermann – MRQE

A Dispatch from Reuter’s

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Escape

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.

Fly-By-Night

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff’s passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.

Letzte Liebe

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

A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.

The Moon and Sixpence

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

Loosely inspired from Gauguin’s life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

Once Upon a Honeymoon

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

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

The Red Shoes

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

The Searching Wind

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle’s 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.

Rhapsody in Blue

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

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Reunion in France

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.