Max Ophüls

Max Ophüls was born on May 06, 1902 in Germany. Max Ophüls's big-screen debut came with Playing at Love directed by Max Ophüls in 1933. Max Ophüls is known for Montparnasse 19 directed by Jacques Becker, Gérard Philipe stars as Modigliani and Lilli Palmer as Beatrice. Max Ophüls has got 3 awards and 7 nominations so far. The most recent award Max Ophüls achieved is Berlin International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Max Ophüls plays is Montparnasse 19 which will be released on Apr 04, 1958.

Director Max Ophüls was born Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the golden twenties. He worked in cities such as Stuttgart, Dortmund, Wuppertal, Vienna, Frankfurt, Breslau and Berlin. In 1929 his son Marcel Ophüls was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He had begun to work under his pseudonym Max Ophüls by that time. In the early 1930s Ophüls discovered the movie world and began to work as an assistant director for Anatole Litvak. He directed his first movies (Dann schon lieber Lebertran (1931), Die verliebte Firma (1932)) in that time too. Around 1933 he emigrated to France and also worked in the Netherlands and Italy for a period of eight years. In 1941 he emigrated again, this time to the USA where he worked for a period of 10 years before he went back to France in 1950. Beginning in 1954 he also worked in Germany again, mainly for German radio in Baden-Baden. Max Ophüls died in March 1957 in Hamburg, Germany and is buried on the famous cemetery Père-Lachaise in Paris, France.