Günter Meisner – MRQE

Bildnis einer Trinkerin. Aller jamais retour

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

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl (TV)

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

Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna’s pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family’s other possessions. Initially the family lives in Switzerland, but even here they come to feel the antisemitism. And when money becomes scarce, and Anna’s father can’t find work as a journalist and Jew, they move on to France, where they are no long submitted to racial discrimination, but struggle financially. Eventually the entire family manages to go to England.

The Man Inside

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

Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. Once there, he sees how they don’t just report the news, but manufacture it to suit the personal political agenda of the paper’s leaders.

Inside Out

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

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He’s the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.

Roselyne et les lions

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

Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his job, the young lovers journey across France finding odd jobs at several circuses. In Germany, they fall under the tutelage of ageing big cat trainer, Klint, and while they are closer to realising their dreams, they find that their success drivers them part.

Tras el cristal

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

A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man’s disturbing past.

L’as des as

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

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.

Night Crossing

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

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

Between Wars

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

This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydney psychiatrist. In the 1920s, he takes up residence at Callan Park Asylum. The film touches on issues of psychoanalysis and physical treatments, such as fever treatment.

Sutjeska

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito’s Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.