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- He made nearly 30 films, the latter ones being especially notable: La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) and Lola Montès (1955).
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His first Hollywood film was the Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. vehicle, The Exile (1947). Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), derived from a Stefan Zweig novella, is the most highly regarded of the American films. [ 1 ] Caught (1949), and The Reckless Moment (1949) followed, before his return to Europe in 1950.
He had begun to work under his pseudonym Max Ophüls by that time. In the early 1930s Ophüls discovered the movie world and began to work as an assistant director for Anatole Litvak. He directed his first movies (Dann schon lieber Lebertran (1931), Die verliebte Firma (1932)) in that time too. Around 1933 he emigrated to France and also worked ...
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Die verliebte Firma was Max Ophüls' first feature film. The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them.
Die verliebte Firma was Max Ophüls' first feature film. The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them.
- The Earrings of Madame De…
- Letter from An Unknown Woman
- Lola Montès
- Le Plaisir
- La Ronde
- Playing at Love
- Everybody’s Woman
- The Reckless Moment
- There’S No Tomorrow
- Caught
The Earrings of Madame De… is a 1953 French drama film directed by Max Ophüls, based on the novel by Louise de Vilmorin. The film tells the story of Madame Louise, a wealthy and beautiful woman who sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay off a debt. The earrings then pass through the hands of several other characters, l...
“Letter from an Unknown Woman” is a 1948 American drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan. The film is based on a novella by Stefan Zweig and tells the story of a young woman named Lisa Berndle (Fontaine) who falls in love with a man named Stefan Brand (Jourdan) at a young age, and spends the rest of her life ...
“Lola Montès” is a 1955 French-German historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls. The film tells the story of the famous 19th-century courtesan, Lola Montès (played by Martine Carol), as she reflects on her tumultuous life and loves. The film is presented as a series of flashbacks, framed by Lola’s performance in a circus where she reenacts scene...
Le Plaisir” (1952) is a French anthology film directed by Max Ophüls, based on three stories by Guy de Maupassant. The film features three vignettes that explore the complexities of love and desire, set against the backdrop of French society in the late 19th century. The first story, “Le Masque,” follows a man who attends a high-society ball disgui...
“La Ronde” is a French film directed by Max Ophüls, released in 1950. It is based on the play of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler. The film is a series of interconnected stories about love and desire, with each scene featuring a different couple in various stages of romantic or sexual relationships. The film follows a circular structure, with the...
“Playing with Love” (1933) is a British romantic comedy film directed by James Whale. The film stars Charles Laughton and is set in the world of the theater. The story follows a struggling playwright named Julian De Lussac (Laughton) who is trying to get his play produced. He meets an actress named Alice Challice (Gina Malo) who helps him to get hi...
Everybody’s Woman (La signora di tutti) is a 1934 Italian drama film directed by Max Ophüls. The film tells the story of Gabriella, a successful and beautiful actress who becomes disillusioned with her glamorous lifestyle and begins to long for something more meaningful. Along the way, she falls in love with a charismatic journalist, but her relati...
“The Reckless Moment” is a 1949 American film noir directed by Max Ophüls and starring Joan Bennett and James Mason. The film is based on a story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and tells the story of a suburban housewife named Lucia Harper (Bennett) who becomes embroiled in a web of deceit and blackmail after her daughter has a dangerous liaison with ...
“There’s No Tomorrow” is a 1939 American musical film directed by Max Nosseck. The film follows the story of a young man named Tony (played by Roger Pryor) who dreams of becoming a successful songwriter. Despite his talents, he struggles to find success in the competitive world of music and is constantly thwarted by unscrupulous industry profession...
“Caught” is a 1949 film noir directed by Max Ophüls and starring James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan. The film is based on a novel by Libbie Block and tells the story of a young woman named Leonora (played by Bel Geddes) who dreams of leaving her small town and becoming a model. She marries a wealthy doctor (played by Mason) but soon d...
Dec 14, 2017 · Ophuls engaged the fraudulence of entertainment, an approach later seen in Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), his second American film and the first movie produced by Rampart Productions, a company formed by star Joan Fontaine and her then husband, William Dozier.
Max Ophüls was a German motion-picture director whose mastery of fluid camera movement gave his films a characteristic lyrical flow. He was one of the first truly international directors, sensitive to national differences and to the human qualities common to all his characters.
