Rudolf Forster – MRQE

Lulu

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

A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor’s pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.

Morgenrot

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

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally “morning-red”) is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise. On patrol Captain Liers and his submarine crew sink an important British ship, but while returning to harbour, they’re lured into a trap by a British vessel disguised as a neutral Danish one. They sink it after it attacks them without warning, but while they prepare to rescue survivors, a British destroyer sinks the sub. On the sea bed 60 feet down, with all but the bridge flooded, the 10 surviving crew have only 8 rescue devices. Liers orders the crew to use them, but they disobey – either all escape or nobody does.

Die Hose

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

A woman loses her undergarments in public. Chaos ensues.

Der Henker von London

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

A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard’s Black Museum.

Der Rest ist Schweigen

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

‘The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film’s script is a “mufti” version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero’s father.’

Island of Lost Men

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

A Chinese general’s daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant’s (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.

Ariane

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

Ariane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner’s first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner’s charming wife, Elizabeth Bergner, likewise making her talkie debut. Young, naive Ariane sets herself for an emotional fall when she falls in love with Konstantin (Rudolf Forster), a much older and very married businessman. For his part, Konstantin regards the girl as just another harmless fling — until he realizes a shade too late that he’s really in love with her after all. Filmed in German, Ariane was simultaneously lensed in an English-language version, The Loves of Ariane.

Erdgeist

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

Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go.