Liebelei (film)

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Liebelei is a 1933 German film directed by Max Ophüls. The film, based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, describes an ill-fated love affair.

[edit] Plot summary

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.

Ophüls later remade the film in France as Une histoire d'amour, using most of the original cast.

[edit] Cast

• Magda Schneider - Christine Weyring
• Wolfgang Liebeneiner - Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer
• Luise Ulrich - Mizzi Schlager
• Carl Esmond - Lieutenant Theo Kaiser
• Olga Tschechowa - Baronin von Eggersdorff
• Gustav Gründgens - Baron von Eggersdorff
• Paul Hörbiger - Old Weyring, Christine's father

[edit] External links

• Liebelei at the Internet Movie Database
• Jesus Cortes in senses of cinema
• French blog
• blog entry by spicebrain