Thérèse Dorny – MRQE

L’acrobate

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

After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d’hotel decides to pretend he too has amnesia. He is claimed in turn by an aristocrat family and by trapeze artists.

Divine

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

A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.

Katia

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

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.

La Fille du diable

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

Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this new name, he deceives his compatriots with the exception of a doctor and the savage Isabelle. During an explanation Saget understands that Isabelle secretly admires him. She denounces him and Saget surrenders without a fight. Thus he ruins all his prestige with the young Amazon.

La Leggenda di Faust

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

Goethe’s drama and Gounod’s opera “Faust” is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.

Ne le criez pas sur les toits

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

A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it’s assumed that his assistant knows it although he does not.

La Douceur d’aimer

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young provincial engineer sends romantic stories he has written to a cousin in Paris, who claims them as his own work.The writer comes to the city and for a while gets even with his relative by having a fling with the man’s wife.