Raimu – MRQE

La Fille du puisatier

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

A rural maiden’s two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.

Le Colonel Chabert

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

The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.

César

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

Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Césariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Césariot’s godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad’s mother. Dissembling that he’s off to see a friend, Césariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Césariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Césariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.

Fanny

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

Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fannys grief after Mariuss departureand her realization that shes pregnant. Panisse continues courting her and embraces the babys impending arrival as a gift, so long as its paternity remains a secret. Fanny and Panisse wed, but after her babys birth, Marius returns unexpectedly and demands what he believes is still his.

Marius

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

César runs a bar along Marseilles’ port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles just outside the bar; and various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship’s whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny’s hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.

Mam’zelle Nitouche

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman’s lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior’s brother… To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before…!

The Eternal Husband

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

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Le Eternel Mari”, a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance.

Untel père et fils

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

The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.

Monsieur La Souris

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start investigating a missing person report, La Souris concocts a plan to secure his find.

Inconnus dans la maison, Les

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

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.