Max Ophüls

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany - 26 March 1957, Hamburg, Germany) — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany (1931–33), France (1933–40), the United States (1947–50), and France again (1950–57). He made nearly 30 films altogether, those from the last period being especially noted: La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) and Lola Montès (1955). Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Ophüls, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.