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Max Ophüls
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German film director (1902-1957)
Key facts
- Born
- Maximillian Oppenheimer , ( 1902-05-06 ) 6 May 1902, Saarbrücken , German Empire
- Died
- 26 March 1957 (1957-03-26) (aged 54), Hamburg , West Germany
- Resting place
- Père Lachaise Cemetery , Paris, France
- Other names
- Max Opuls Ophuls
- Citizenship
- Germany France (from 1938)
- Occupations
- Director, writer, art director
- Years active
- 1931–1957
- Spouse
- Hildegard Wall (m. 1926)
- Children
- Marcel Ophuls
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Saarbrücken
- Place of death
- Hamburg
- Child
- Marcel Ophuls
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Max Ophüls.jpg
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- Commons category
- Max Ophüls
- date of birth
- 1902-05-06
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of death
- 1957-03-26
- birth name
- Max Oppenheimer
- name in native language
- Max Ophüls
- cause of death
- rheumatic heart disease
- archives at
- Cinémathèque Française
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Max Ophüls
- start of work period
- 1931-00-00
- P8168
- Wrath of the Titans
- end of work period
- 1957-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957), known as Max Ophüls (AW-fəlss or OH-fəlss), was a German and French film director, screenwriter and art director. He was known for his opulent and lyrical visual style, with heavy use of tracking shots, and his melancholic, romantic themes. The Harvard Film Archive has called Ophüls "a supreme stylist of the cinema and a master storyteller".
A refugee from Nazi Germany, Ophüls worked in Germany (1931–33), France (1933–40 and 1950–57), and the United States (1947–50). He made nearly 30 films, the latter ones being especially notable: Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), The Reckless Moment (1949), La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), The Earrings of Madame de… (1953), and Lola Montès (1955).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Max Ophüls” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.