Name | Max Ophüls |
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Birth name | Maximillian Oppenheimer |
Birth date | May 06, 1902 |
Birth place | Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany |
Death date | March 25, 1957 |
Death place | Hamburg, Germany |
Occupation | Director, Writer |
Years active | 1931 - 1957 |
Spouse | Hildegard Wall (1926-?) |
Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany - 26 March 1957, Hamburg, Germany) — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany (1931–33), France (1933–40), the United States (1947–50), and France again (1950–57). He made nearly 30 films altogether, those from the last period being especially noted: La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) and Lola Montès (1955).
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 an older man.
His first Hollywood film was the Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. vehicle, The Exile (1947). Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), derived from a Stefan Zweig novella is the most highly regarded of the American films. Caught (1949), and The Reckless Moment (1949) followed 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, while shooting interiors on The Lovers of Montparnasse, Ophüls was buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. This final film was completed by his friend Jacques Becker.
Max Ophüls's son Marcel Ophüls became a distinguished documentary-film maker.
Actor James Mason, who worked with Ophüls on two films, wrote a short poem about the director's love for tracking shots and elaborate camera movements: :A shot that does not call for tracks :Is agony for poor old Max, :Who, separated from his dolly, :Is wrapped in deepest melancholy. :Once, when they took away his crane, :I thought he'd never smile again.
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