Tag Archives: Jean Marais

Polish countess Elena falls in love to a French radical party’s candidate, a general, in pre-World War I Paris, but another officer pines for her. Read More »

The education of a princess wrapped in a love story. Read More »

At the Conservatory of Vienna the student only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter. Read More »

Eternal Return (L’Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. Read More »

Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. Read More »

Story of a group of radio-men, on the isle of Noronha, off the coast of Brazil, whose post was attacked by escaped convicts Read More »

Laurent Bertal is a successful attorney who lives in Berne with his beautiful and adoring wife Evelyne. Theirs appears to be the perfect marriage, but while on holiday in Italy Evelyne falls in love with a young Frenchman, Rémy. While Evelyne is profoundly unsettled by this romantic entanglement, Rémy regards it as a mere distraction and soon heads back to Paris where he lives with his mistress, Marion. One day, Evelyne is overjoyed when she receives an invitation from Rémy to spend a weekend with him in Paris. The morning after their first night together in Rémy’s apartment, Evelyne accidentally breaks a glass ornament in the shape of a castle. The incident proves to be an omen of bad luck.
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Around 1889 takes place the so-called Mayerling Incident: it is the crown prince of the Austrian empire and his dead lover. Suicide or murder?
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