Liebelei

1933 film

Curt Alexander
Hans Wilhelm
Max Ophüls

Story byFelix SaltenBased onLiebelei
by Arthur SchnitzlerProduced by

Christoph Mülleneisen [de]^[1]
Herman Millakowsky (Pre-production)

Starring

Magda Schneider
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Luise Ullrich

CinematographyFranz PlanerEdited byFriedel BuckowMusic byTheo Mackeben

Production
company

Elite-Tonfilm-Produktion

Distributed by

Metropol-Filmverleih
General Foreign Sales (US)

Release dates

10 March 1933 (1933-03-10) (Germany)
27 February 1936 (1936-02-27) (US)

Running time

88 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

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

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

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

Notes

^ Schneider's daughter, Romy Schneider, played the same role in the 1958 film Christine

References

^ Liebelei, filmportal.de
^ 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.