Helmut Käutner – MRQE

Einladung ins Schloss (TV)

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Schwarzer Kies

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tensions arise when a US military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

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.’

A Stranger in My Arms

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy’s widow.

The Restless Years

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

A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.

Monpti

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

A poor 22 years old Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 years old Parisian girl. They fall in love, but tragedy ensues when the truth behind the girl is revealed.

Die Zürcher Verlobung

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

Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner’s closest friend and from then on things become very complicated…

Himmel ohne Sterne

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

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.

Des Teufels General

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

Curt Jurgens stars as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service, even though he barely tolerates the Hitler regime. Sickened by wartime Nazi atrocities, Jurgens renounces his government, and is imprisoned and tortured as a result. Once released, the general takes pity on a downtrodden Jewish family. This isolated act of kindness is a point in his favor when Jurgens stands before Satan himself for his final judgment. The Devil’s General was based on an immensely successful postwar play by German author Carl Zuckmeyer.

Bildnis einer Unbekannten

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

Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole’s husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened.