Kurt Raab – MRQE

Bolwieser (TV)

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

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the towns siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.

Escape from Sobibor (TV)

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

The true story of WWII’s notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Out of Order (TV)

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

Two former lovers (RenÃ©e Soutendijk, Gotz George), an embezzler (Wolfgang Kieling), and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.

Bremer Freiheit: Frau Geesche Gottfried – Ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel (TV)

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

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends. (synopsis written by Will Gilbert)

Angst vor der Angst (TV)

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

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.

Die Niklashauser Fart (TV)

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

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the “Black Monk” in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The “Black Monk” suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

“Acht Stunden sind kein Tag”

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

Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a criticalyet far from cynicalperspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.

Bittere Ernte

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who’s now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon’s a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn’t tell Rosa he’s seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he’ll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon’s peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war’s end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.

Abwärts

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

It’s Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn’t know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it about 100 meters from the floor. They have little oxygen and must survive

Tricheurs

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

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.