Olga Tschechowa – MRQE

Bel Ami

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

Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.

Maskerade

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

After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter’s lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.

Moulin Rouge

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

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter’s fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.

Peer Gynt

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

Liebling der Götter

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

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings’ second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna. But when he embarks on a tour of South America, tragedy strikes. The sweltering climate causes Winkelmann to lose his voice on stage, a disaster met with hoots and cat-calls. Dispirited he returns to Europe, where he soon learns that no one is aware of what happened in South America. Intending to retire so as not to be exposed to further humiliation, Winkelmann is goaded back on stage — where, miraculously, his gorgeous voice returns.

Leidenschaft

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

Die ewige Maske

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

Venice Film Festival 1935

Was bin ich ohne Dich

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

Die Welt ohne Maske

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

Harry Piel

Liebelei

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

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune…