Films with: Ophuls, Max

Letter from an unknown woman

Philandering concert pianist Stefan arrives home to find a letter which begins 'by the time you read this I might be dead'. So unfolds the story of Lisa, one of the many women he had shared a brief encounter over the years and swiftly forgotten. her life had been spent loving him unflateringly and now he would learn the truth about his past. Set in the turn of the century vienna, this haunting tale is perhaps cinema's greatest unrequited love story and is considered to be one of Ophul's great masterpieces.

DVD 5328

Lola Montès

Depicts, through flashbacks, the life of a famous courtesan, recounted as part of a lavish circus act. The ringmaster introduces and displays Lola Montés who recalls her romances with Franz Liszt, a student, and Ludwig, King of Bavaria before she was reduced by scandal, poverty and ill fortune to her present life as a circus performer.

DVD 5744

Madame de--

Tragic misunderstandings arise when a society wife sells her earrings and tells her husband she has lost them.

DVD 9886