Max Ophuls
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Maximillian Oppenheimer (1902 – 1956) was a German-born film director who worked in Germany (1931-1933), France (1933-1939) and the United States (1947-1950).
He made nearly 30 films, the latter two being particularly notable: La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), and Lola Montès (1955).
Max Opuls appeared on several of his American films, including The Reckless Moment, Caught, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and The Exile, he was credited as Max Opuls.
After him, the annual Filmfestival in Saarbrücken, Max Ophüls Preis, is named.
Life
Max Ophüls was born in Saarbrücke, Germany, the son of Leopold Oppenheimer, a Jewish textile manufacturer and the owner of several textile shops in Germany, and his partner Helene Oppenheimer (née Bamberger). During the early stages of his career, he adopted the pseudonym Ophüls so that if he falters, it would not shame his father.
He began as a stage actor in 1919 and appeared at the Aachen Theatre from 1921 to 1923, initially imagining a career in acting. He began his career as a stage manager before becoming the first director of Dortmund's city theater. In 1924, Ophüls began to perform in theaters. In 1926, he became the creative director of the Burgtheater in Vienna. After 200 plays to his name, he moved to film production in 1929 as a dialogue director under Anatole Litvak at UFA in Berlin. He shot around Germany and produced his first film in 1931, the comedy short Dann schon lieber Lebertran (not Cod-Liver Oil).
Liebelei (1933), one of his early films, had a few key elements that made him famous: lavish sets, a feminist attitude, and a duel between a younger and an older man.
Ophüls met Hilde Wall at the Burgtheater. They were married in 1926.
Ophüls, a Jew, fled to France in 1933 after the Reichstag fire and became a French citizen in 1938, dictating the Nazi rise. He travelled through Switzerland and Italy after the fall of France to Germany. He died in Portugal in Estoril, Portugal, in July 1941, before heading to the United States, at Casa Mar e Sol. He starred in Hollywood and was lauded by director Preston Sturges, a long-serving fan, who produced a number of notable films.
The Exile, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s first Hollywood film (1947). Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), which is based on a Stefan Zweig novella, is one of the most well-known of American cinema. Caught (1949) and The Reckless Moment (1949) followed him before returning to Europe in 1950.
He directed and collaborated on Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde (1950), which received the 1951 BAFTA Award for Best Film, as well as Le Plaisir and Madame de... (1953), the latter with Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer, which ended his career. Ophüls died of rheumatic heart disease in Hamburg on March 26, 1957, while shooting interiors on The Lovers of Montparnasse in Paris, and was buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery. Jacques Becker, his buddy, made this final film.
Marcel Ophüls' nephew became a documentary film maker, producer of The Sorrow and the Pity, and other films exploring political behavior.