Jacques Breuer Movies
- 1990
- R
In this technically outstanding made-for-television police drama, a pair of feuding policemen only have their mutual disagreements to keep them going, because their careers are going nowhere. Then they stop in at a run-down restaurant and discover indications of a widespread protection racket. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Barbara Auer, Jacques Breuer, (more)
- 1986
- PG
The first victory in The Second Victory is the Allied triumph in World War II. British major Anthony Andrews, in charge of the occupation troops in a remote Austrian village, must deal with the uncooperative attitude of the locals when one of his men is killed by a deranged Axis soldier. Andrews also pursues a romantic involvement with Birgit Doll, the niece of crooked lawyer Max Von Sydow. The lawyer kills himself when his crimes are revealed, whereupon Birgit, heretofore the only "sympathetic" villager in the film, turns on Andrews, holding the Major responsible for her uncle's death. We strongly suspect that the title The Second Victory was meant to be ironic: Nobody wins in this one. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Andrews, Max von Sydow, (more)
- 1985
Based on a novel of the same title by Uwe Timm and set in 1904 in South Africa, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins. Gottschalk (Jacques Breuer) and Wenstrup (Edwin Noel) are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga (Ken Gampu) is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries. What follows is a sequence of battles and skirmishes that ultimately lead to Morenga seeking asylum in South Africa, where the ruling Brits are about as trustworthy as their German counterparts. Morenga was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacques Breuer, Jurgen Holtz, (more)
- 1981
In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the infamous Berlin Wall, CBS offered the made-for-TV drama Berlin Tunnel 21. Richard Thomas stars as Sandy Mueller, a former US army officer. Shortly after the erection of the Wall, Mueller masterminds a plan to unite five West Germans with their Eastern-sector loved ones. Horst Buchholtz costars as Emerich Weber, a structural engineer who oversees the construction of an underground tunnel. This true story had previously been dramatized in the 1962 TV special The Tunnel. Also starring Jose Ferrer, the location-filmed Berlin Tunnel 21 was first broadcast March 25, 1981. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1978
The classic German Romantic novel of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, written in 1826, provides the basis for this film. The screenplay was written before the East German film based on the same book was filmed, but it took four more years for the director to come up with backers for this version. In the story, set in the late 18th century, Good-for-Nothing (Jacques Breuer), a lad who is a bit of a scoundrel, leaves his father's mill, has a wealth of adventures with noblewomen and rogues, has his heart broken at least once, and eventually settles down to a quieter life. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacques Breuer, Eva-Maria Meineke, (more)
