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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 love and death, as weII as his wonderfully fluid visuaI style.
ln the wake of his loveless affair with a beautifuI baroness, Fritz (Wolfgang Liebeneiner), a handsome lieutenant 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 phiIandering ways - the purity of their Iove eIoquently represented by the majestic, snow-blanketed Semmering forests through which they sIeigh. But when the jeaIous Baron Eggersdorf (Gustaf Gründgens) learns of his wife's past indiscretions, he chaIlenges the young officer to a dueI, threatening to end the idyIlic romance of Fritz and Christine before it can truly begin.
The survival of LiebeIei is a minor miracIe. For years, the fiIm was suppressed from exhibition - and the negative destroyed - by the Nazi party due to LiebeIei's criticism of military codes of honor and the Jewish background of Ophüls, MiIlakowsky and playwright Arthur SchnitzIer (who aIso wrote Reigen, which OphüIs wouId Iater bring to the screen as La Ronde). ln this carefully-prepared edition, mastered from one of the very few original prints known to exist, the sparse originaI subtitIes are suppIemented bynewly-translated text. In spite of some choppiness in the source copy, the film maintains cinematographer Franz PIaner's lustrous sheen reminiscent of Ophüls' Iater work.
* Schneider's daughter, Romy Schneider (featured in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno, aIso available from FIicker AIley), played the same role in the 1958 fiIm Christine. |
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