Lilo Pempeit – MRQE

Nora Helmer (TV)

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

A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll’s House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German television.

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)

In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden

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

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

Fontane – Effi Briest

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

A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older diplomat. Unfortunately, neither the Baron’s family nor anyone in the secluded town she now calls home accept Effi as an equal. Starved for companionship, Effi begins an innocent friendship with a well-known womanizer that may jeopardize her position as the Baron’s wife.

Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?

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

Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. His wife pushes him to seek a promotion, which may be a long shot after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?