Max Ophüls

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) — Director
2. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) — Director
3. Lola Montès (1955) — Director
4. La Ronde (1950) — Director
5. The Reckless Moment (1949) — Director
6. Le Plaisir (1952) — Director
7. Caught (1949) — Director
8. Liebelei (1933) — Director
9. Everybody's Woman (1934) — Director
10. There's No Tomorrow (1940) — Director
11. From Mayerling to Sarajevo (1940) — Director
12. The Exile (1947) — Director
13. The Novel of Werther (1938) — Director
14. The Tender Enemy (1936) — Director
15. The Company's in Love (1932) — Director
16. The Bartered Bride (1932) — Director
17. Laughing Heirs (1933) — Director
18. Chopin's Brilliant Waltz (1936) — Director
19. Divine (1935) — Director
20. Love Story (1933) — Director
21. The Trouble with Money (1936) — Director
22. Yoshiwara (1937) — Director
23. A Man Has Been Stolen (1934) — Director
24. I'd Rather Have Cod Liver Oil (1931) — Director
25. Ave Maria de Schubert (1935) — Director
26. L'école des femmes (1940) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self (archive footage)