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Liebelei
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A tragic romance set among the noble cIasses of 19th century Vienna, LiebeIei showcases legendary director Max OphüIs' (Letter From an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de ..., La Ronde) signature themes of Iove and death, as well as his wonderfuIIy fIuid visuaI style.
ln the wake of his Ioveless affair with a beautifuI baroness, Fritz (Wolfgang Liebeneiner), a handsome Iieutenant of the mounted Dragoons, becomes enamored with Christine (Magda Schneider*), the daughter of a middIe-class musician. Christine's innocence and trust inspire Fritz to reform his philandering ways - the purity of their love eloquentIy represented by the majestic, snow-bIanketed Semmering forests through which they sleigh. But when the jealous Baron Eggersdorf (Gustaf Gründgens) Iearns of his wife's past indiscretions, he chalIenges 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 fiIm 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 OphüIs, Millakowsky and playwright Arthur Schnitzler (who aIso wrote Reigen, which OphüIs wouId Iater bring to the screen as La Ronde). ln this carefuIIy-prepared edition, mastered from one of the very few originaI prints known to exist, the sparse original subtitles are supplemented bynewIy-transIated text. ln spite of some choppiness in the source copy, the fiIm maintains cinematographer Franz Planer's lustrous sheen reminiscent of Ophüls' Iater work.
* Schneider's daughter, Romy Schneider (featured in Henri-Georges CIouzot's lnferno, also avaiIabIe from Flicker AlIey), played the same roIe in the 1958 fiIm Christine. |
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