Ivan Desny – MRQE

Paper Tiger

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

A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.

Madeleine

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

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

Fabian

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

The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.

God afton, Herr Wallenberg – En Passionshistoria från verkligheten

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

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

Malou

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

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation reflected in the unusual destiny of an individual woman. And that of Hannah, an alert, independent, modern woman, seeking after freedom and her own identity, and trying in present-day Berlin to save her shaky marriage.

Touch Me Not

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A psychopathic industrial spy terrorizes a secretary late at night in a darkened high-rise office building.

Une vie

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

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.

Lola

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

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants outshe wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinders homage to Josef von Sternbergs classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Anastasia

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.

Voleurs, Les

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan’s body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan’s partners in a seedy nightclub; the love triangle of Alex, Juliette, and Marie, a professor of philosophy; and of Alex and his nephew, Ivan’s dour, stoic son. Ivan’s death changes every relationship.