Alain Noury Movies

A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures, not many good. They are both survivors from Nazi concentration camps which automatically gives them a kindred understanding. Their past comes back to haunt them though as they run into an ex-German soldier who shows them a skull from a person that had been tortured - an act that infuriates them so much that they knock down the German and steal the skull to finally put it in the French memorial for deportees. As they travel around the streets of Paris, they are constantly reminded of the previous Nazi presence, or run into Nazi-like behavior. There is a reprieve from Paris, however, as they separately go to Normandy where her family lives. Once together there, they go for a walk and come across some inane adults playing war games in German bunkers on the beach, reminders of the D-day landing on Normandy. By now it seems that their unwanted run-ins with a painful past have got to end, one way or another. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In this German melodrama, misfortune follows misfortune for the girl waiting in the rain. She is eloping with a young man who is to pick her up. Alas, he does not appear. Feverish with pneumonia, she is rescued by another young man who takes her back to her father's house. She recovers from her illness, and the attentive young man replaces her former lover in her affections. What the girl and her new lover don't know is that her first lover did not stand her up; he was killed in an accident en route to their rendezvous. The new boyfriend suffers from tremendous guilt when he discovers that he had an accidental hand in her previous love's death, and shortly after that he dies in a suspicious air crash. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This German language suspense film is based on a quite long best-selling novel of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel and condenses the novel's complex story using flashbacks and rapid movement between locations. When a young man (Alain Noury) goes to Vienna to try to solve the mystery of his industrialist father's assassination, his investigation leads to events that took place in Vienna in 1939. It also infringes on secrets important to all the Allied Force secret services (French, Russian, American and British), so much so that they forget their natural antagonism and join forces to try and stop the young man in his quest for answers. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This symbolic film follows the journey of a young man as he awakens to his sexual desires. He is seen naked in the desert and in full attire talking to hippies at Berkeley. He sees a dancing girl and a young British woman with a little girl. Cleopatra appears in the desert, and a German girl recites poetry. All the women depicted are symbolic of love, family and desire that is the focus of his search. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide