A Love Story (French: Une histoire d'amour) is a 1933 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Abel Tarride, Magda Schneider and Simone Héliard, based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1896 play Liebelei about a musician's daughter in 1890s Imperial Vienna who falls in love with a young army officer, only for him to be killed in a duel.
It is a French-language version of Liebelei with several of the same actors.White p.366 It was made at the Joinville Studios in Paris.
Cast Abel Tarride as Le vieux Weyring, musicien Magda Schneider as Christine Weyring Simone Héliard as Mizzi Schlager Gustaf Gründgens as Baron von Eggersdorf Olga Chekhova as Baronin von Eggersdorf George Rigaud as Lieutenant Théodore Berg Wolfgang Liebeneiner as Sous-lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer Georges Mauloy as Colonel Paul Otto as Major von Eggersdorf Pierre Stéphen as Binder, musicien André Dubosc as Le concierge du théâtre
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Bibliography Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak: A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works. McFarland, 1998. White, Susan M. The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman. Columbia University Press, 1995.
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