LIEBELEI, based on Arthur Schnitzler's play about a tragic love affair in turn-of-the-century Vienna, is a marvelously acted and beautifully made early film by the great German director Max Ophuls.
In Austria, a young army officer named Fritz (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) is having an affair with a married woman, the Baroness Eggerdorff (Olga Tschechowa), but her husband, Baron Eggerdorff (Gustaf Gruendgens), begins to suspect, and Fritz decides to break it off. Fritz and another officer friend of
his named Theo (Willy Eichberger), meet two girls at the opera one night, and take them out to a café. Theo goes off with the outgoing and friendly Mizi (Luise Ullrich), and ...
Released:
1932
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins