Max Ophüls

Max Ophüls

geb. 06.05.1902
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Deutsches Reich

gest. 25.03.1957 (54 Jahre)
Hamburk, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Biografie

Max Ophüls (b. 1902, Saarbrücken – 1957, Hamburg) was deemed controversial during his time, particularly by the realist- and socially-oriented mainstream film critics. Not even the setting of his stories in fin-de-siècle Europe (most often Vienna) fitted their criteria, nor their leaning towards melodrama, nor their polished ornamental style. It is only today that Ophüls is recognised as one of the luminaries of classic world film. An unwilling German globetrotter on the run from Nazism and the war, he filmed in a number of European countries and in the USA. His oeuvre is topped by his French films La ronde (1950), Le plaisir (1951), Madame de... (1953) and Lola Montès (1955).

MFF Karlovy Vary

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Filme
1955

Lola Montez

1950

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Schauspieler