Liebelei

Liebelei is a 1933 German period drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Magda Schneider, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, and Luise Ullrich.[2]

For the song by Raffaella Carrà, see A far l'amore comincia tu.

Liebelei
Directed byMax Ophüls
Produced by
Screenplay by
Story byFelix Salten
Based onLiebelei
by Arthur Schnitzler
Starring
Music byTheo Mackeben
CinematographyFranz Planer
Edited byFriedel Buckow
Production
company
Elite-Tonfilm-Produktion
Distributed by
  • Metropol-Filmverleih
  • General Foreign Sales (US)
Release date
  • 10 March 1933 (1933-03-10) (Germany)
  • 27 February 1936 (1936-02-27) (US)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Production

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.

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

Notes
  1. Schneider's daughter, Romy Schneider, played the same role in the 1958 film Christine

References
  1. Liebelei, filmportal.de
  2. White, p. 43.

Bibliography
  • 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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