biography
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Ophuls or Opüls, Max
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originally Max Oppenheimer
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pronunciation:
[ohpüls]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–57)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Saarbrücken, SW Germany, who chose French nationality in the plebiscite of 1934. He worked in films from 1930, first in Germany and later in France. In 1941 he emigrated to the USA, and in 1947–9 made The Exile, Caught, and The Reckless Moment. He then returned to France, where he made his greatest successes, La Ronde (1950) and Lola Montez (1955). |
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