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Max Ophüls
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957) — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German film director who worked in Germany (1931–33), France (1933–40), the United…
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Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957) — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German film director who worked in Germany (1931–33), France (1933–40), the United States (1947–50), and France again (1950–57). He is best known for his smooth camera movements and complex tracking shots. Many of his films are narrated from the point of view of the female protagonist. In addition to the American romantic melodrama Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), the French productions La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) and Lola Montès (1955) are among his best-known works. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
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1989
Mistress Berta Garlan
Movie Adaptation
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1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1955
Lola Montès
Movie Director
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1953
The Earrings of Madame de...
Movie Director
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1952
Le Plaisir
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1950
La Ronde
Movie Director
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1949
The Reckless Moment
Movie Director
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1949
Caught
Movie Director
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1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Movie Director
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1947
The Exile
Movie Director
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1940
L'école des femmes
Movie Director
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1940
There's No Tomorrow
Movie Screenplay
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1940
From Mayerling to Sarajevo
Movie Director
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1938
The Novel of Werther
Movie Director
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1937
Yoshiwara
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1936
The Trouble with Money
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1936
The Tender Enemy
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1936
Chopin's Brilliant Waltz
Movie Director
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1935
Divine
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1935
Ave Maria de Schubert
Movie Director
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1934
Everybody's Woman
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1934
A Man Has Been Stolen
Movie Director
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1933
Liebelei
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1933
Love Story
Movie Director
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1933
Laughing Heirs
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1932
The Bartered Bride
Movie Director
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1932
The Company's in Love
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1931
I'd Rather Have Cod Liver Oil
Movie Director
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1931
No More Love
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