Liebelei (film)

Liebelei

Directed by	Max Ophüls
Produced by	Christoph Mülleneisen^[1] Herman Millakowsky
Screenplay by	Curt Alexander Hans Wilhelm Max Ophüls
Story by	Felix Salten
Based on	Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler
Starring	Magda Schneider Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Music by	Theo Mackeben
Cinematography	Franz Planer
Edited by	Friedel Buckow
Distributed by	General Foreign Sales (US)
Release dates	March 10, 1933 (Germany) February 27, 1936 (US)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Liebelei (1933) is a German film directed by Max Ophüls. The film, based on a play of the same name (Liebelei) by Arthur Schnitzler, describes an ill-fated love affair.

Plot

A love affair between a young lieutenant and a musician's daughter ends tragically when the lieutenant is killed in a duel, and the girl commits suicide.

A separate French-language version - A Love Story (1934) - was also released, using most of the original cast.

Cast

Magda Schneider as Christine Weyring^{[N 1]}
Wolfgang Liebeneiner as Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer
Luise Ullrich as Mizzi Schlager
Carl Esmond as Lieutenant Theo Kaiser
Olga Tschechowa as Baronin von Eggersdorff
Gustaf Gründgens as Baron von Eggersdorff
Paul Hörbiger as Old Weyring, Christine's father

↑ Schneider's daughter, Romy Schneider, played the same role in the 1958 film Christine

References

↑ Liebelei, filmportal.de

External links

Films directed by Max Ophüls

The Bartered Bride (1932)
The Merry Heirs (1933)
Liebelei (1933)
A Love Story (1933)
Everybody's Woman (1934)
The Trouble With Money (1936)
Yoshiwara (1937)
The Novel of Werther (1938)
Sarajevo (1940)
The Exile (1947)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Caught (1949)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Vendetta (1950, fired)
La Ronde (1950)
Le Plaisir (1952)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
Lola Montès (1955)
The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 219205485 GND: 7660060-9 BNF: cb164591601 (data)

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