A Love Story (French: Une histoire d'amour) is a 1933 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Abel Tarride, Magda Schneider and Simone Héliard, based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1896 play Liebelei about a musician's daughter in 1890s Imperial Vienna who falls in love with a young army officer, only for him to be killed in a duel.
It is a French-language version of Liebelei with several of the same actors.[1] It was made at the Joinville Studios in Paris.
Cast
- Abel Tarride as Le vieux Weyring, musicien
- Magda Schneider as Christine Weyring
- Simone Héliard as Mizzi Schlager
- Gustaf Gründgens as Baron von Eggersdorf
- Olga Chekhova as Baronin von Eggersdorf
- George Rigaud as Lieutenant Théodore Berg
- Wolfgang Liebeneiner as Sous-lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer
- Georges Mauloy as Colonel
- Paul Otto as Major von Eggersdorf
- Pierre Stéphen as Binder, musicien
- André Dubosc as Le concierge du théâtre
References
- ^ White p.366
Bibliography
- Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak: A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works. McFarland, 1998.
- White, Susan M. The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman. Columbia University Press, 1995.
External links
- A Love Story at IMDb