Liebelei is a 1933 German period drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Magda Schneider, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, and Luise Ullrich.[2]
Plot
In Vienna during the late Imperial era, 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.
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 Chekhova as Baronin von Eggersdorff
- Gustaf Gründgens as Baron von Eggersdorff
- Paul Hörbiger as Old Weyring, Christine's father
- Paul Otto as Major von Eggersdorf, the baron's brother
Production
Liebelei was directed by Max Ophüls and produced by Elite Tonfilm.[3] The film, based on a play of the same name (Liebelei) by Arthur Schnitzler, describes an ill-fated love affair. A 1927 silent film version was previously produced. A separate French-language version – A Love Story (1934) – was also released, using most of the original cast.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Gabriel Pellon. Location shooting took place in Berlin and Vienna.
Release
After World War II the film was approved for showing in occupied Germany by the United Kingdom, but was banned by the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft in 1951.[3]
Notes
- ^ Schneider's daughter, Romy Schneider, played the same role in the 1958 film Christine
References
Works cited
- Kelson, John (1996). Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions held in Zonal Film Archives of Film Section, Information Services Division, Control Commission for Germany, (BE) (2 ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0948911190.
Further reading
- White, Susan M. (1995). The Cinema of Max Ophüls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-10113-4.
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