A Love Story (1933 film)

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.^[1] 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 Tschechowa as Baronin von Eggersdorf
• George Rigaud as Lieutenant Théodore Berg
• Wolfgang Liebeneiner as Sous-lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer
• as Colonel
• Paul Otto as Major von Eggersdorf
• Pierre Stéphen as Binder, musicien
• André Dubosc as Le concierge du théâtre

References[]

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.

External links[]

• A Love Story at IMDb

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