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Max OphulsMax Ophüls (born Maximillian Oppenheimer, 6 May 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany - 25 March 1957, Hamburg, Germany) was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany, the United States and France. He made nearly thirty films.He started his career as a stage actor in 1919 but moved into theatre production in 1924. Two years later, he became creative director of the Burgtheater in Vienna and, having had 200 plays to his credit, turned to film production in 1929, when he became a dialogue director under Anatole Litvak at Universum Film AG (aka UFA) in Berlin. He worked throughout Germany and directed his first film in 1931, the comedy short Dann schon lieber Lebertran (literally In This Case, Rather Cod-Liver Oil). Of his early films, the most acclaimed is Liebelei (1933), which included a number of the characteristic elements for which he was to become known: luxurious sets, a feminist attitude, and a duel between a younger and older man. Predicting the Nazi ascendancy, Ophüls, a Jew, fled to France in 1933 after the Reichstag fire and became a French citizen in 1938. After the fall of France to Germany, he travelled through Switzerland and Italy to the USA in 1941, only to become inactive in Hollywood. Fortunately, he was rescued by a longtime fan, director Preston Sturges, and went on to direct a number of distinguished films. His first Hollywood film was the Douglas Fairbanks Jr. vehicle, The Exile (1947). Once established, he went on to direct Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Caught (1949), and The Reckless Moment (1949) before his return to Europe in 1950. Back in France he directed and collaborated on the adaptation of Schnitzler's La Ronde (1950), which won the 1951 BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Lola Montès (1955) starring Martine Carol and Peter Ustinov, as well as Le Plaisir and The Earrings of Madame De... (1953), the latter with Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer, which capped his career. Though he died from rheumatic heart disease in Hamburg, Ophüls was buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Max Ophuls - what members say
Max Ophuls - filmography
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Max Ophuls facts5 most recent filmsLola Montes - 3.0 starsMadame De... - 3.5 stars Le Plaisir - 3.5 stars La Ronde - 3.5 stars Reckless Moment - 3.5 stars 5 highest-rated filmsLetter from an Unknown Woman - 4.0 starsMadame De... - 3.5 stars Reckless Moment - 3.5 stars Le Plaisir - 3.5 stars La Ronde - 3.5 stars 5 lowest-rated filmsLola Montes - 3.0 starsCaught - 3.5 stars La Ronde - 3.5 stars Le Plaisir - 3.5 stars Reckless Moment - 3.5 stars Most frequent co-starsAnton Walbrook - 2 times - show filmsJames Mason - 2 times - show films Joan Fontaine - 1 times - show films Gaby Morlay - 1 times - show films Serge Reggiani - 1 times - show films |
Doomed love 24 January 2007
... This must be one of the best films ever about a tragic love affair. Max Ophuls brings all his cinematic artistry to bear on Lisa's love for a man who takes pl...
Pretty vacant 2 August 2009
French Class 29 January 2009
