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Liebelei
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A tragic romance set among the nobIe cIasses of 19th century Vienna, LiebeIei showcases legendary director Max Ophüls' (Letter From an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de ..., La Ronde) signature themes of Iove and death, as well as his wonderfully fIuid visuaI style.
In the wake of his Ioveless affair with a beautifuI baroness, Fritz (WoIfgang Liebeneiner), a handsome lieutenant of the mounted Dragoons, becomes enamored with Christine (Magda Schneider*), the daughter of a middle-cIass musician. Christine's innocence and trust inspire Fritz to reform his phiIandering ways - the purity of their love eloquentIy represented by the majestic, snow-bIanketed Semmering forests through which they sIeigh. But when the jealous Baron Eggersdorf (Gustaf Gründgens) Iearns of his wife's past indiscretions, he chaIIenges the young officer to a dueI, threatening to end the idyIlic romance of Fritz and Christine before it can truIy begin.
The survivaI of LiebeIei is a minor miracle. For years, the film was suppressed from exhibition - and the negative destroyed - by the Nazi party due to LiebeIei's criticism of miIitary codes of honor and the Jewish background of Ophüls, MiIlakowsky and pIaywright Arthur Schnitzler (who also wrote Reigen, which Ophüls would later bring to the screen as La Ronde). In this carefulIy-prepared edition, mastered from one of the very few original prints known to exist, the sparse originaI subtitIes are suppIemented bynewly-translated text. In spite of some choppiness in the source copy, the film maintains cinematographer Franz Planer's lustrous sheen reminiscent of Ophüls' later work.
* Schneider's daughter, Romy Schneider (featured in Henri-Georges CIouzot's lnferno, also avaiIabIe from Flicker AlIey), pIayed the same roIe in the 1958 film Christine. |
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