Paul Wegener – MRQE

The Magician (1926/I)

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

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.

Monna Vanna

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

Kolberg

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

During Napoleon’s victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.

Der große König

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

King Frederick II (aka “Frederick the Great”) of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren’t going well. The Austrians are inflicting major casualties, and his army is beginning to crumble. Defeat seems inevitable when a combination of events gives him hope that he may pull victory from the jaws of defeat after all.

Das unsterbliche Herz

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

Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullets more accurate by designing a new form. Just as he welds together two round balls into an elongated shape, he believes he’s discovered that his assistant Konrad is trying to alienate his wife from him. There is a struggle, during which Henlein’s new kind of bullet strikes him in the chest. The doctor, unaware that there are two bullets lodged in his body, because there was only one shot, only removes one.

Hans Westmar

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

Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel–here called “Hans Westmar”–who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.

Ramper, der Tiermensch

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

Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.

Die Weber

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

Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers revolution.

Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen

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

Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict’s grown up son.

Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam

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

Suffering under the tyrannical rule of Rudolf II in 16th-century Prague, a Talmudic rabbi creates a giant warrior to protect the safety of his people. Sculpted of clay and animated by the mysterious secrets of the Cabala, the Golem was a seemingly indestructible juggernaut, performing acts of great heroism, yet equally capable of dreadful violence. When the rabbi’s assistant takes control of the Golem and attempts to use him for selfish gain, the lumbering monster runs rampant, abducting the rabbi’s daughter and setting fire to the ghetto.