Max Ophüls

Maximillian Oppenheimer was born in Saarbrücken on 6 May 1902, into a family of textile industrialists, and took the name Max Ophüls in the theatre. An actor and then a stage director, he worked notably at the Burgtheater in Vienna, before coming to cinema at the end of the twenties and making his first film in 1931. He left Germany for France in 1933, became a French citizen, worked in the United States after the war, then returned to France at the beginning of the fifties. He died in Hamburg on 26 March 1957.

In the catalogue 4

• CinemaLiebeleiMax Ophüls · 1933Cinema
• CinemaLetter from an Unknown WomanMax Ophüls · 1948Cinema
• CinemaLetter from an Unknown WomanMax Ophüls · 1948Cinema
• CinemaThe Earrings of Madame de...Madame de…Max Ophüls · 1953Cinema