Liebelei (1933)

Flirtation (1933)

 

 

Directed by: Max Ophüls

Screenplay by: Curt Alexander, Hans Wilhelm and Max Ophüls

Story by: Felix Salten

Based on: Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler

Produced by: Christoph Mülleneisen and Herman Millakowsky (Pre-production)

Cinematography: Franz Planer

Edited by: Friedel Buckow

Music by: Theo Mackeben

Production company: Elite-Tonfilm-Produktion

Distributed by: Metropol-Filmverleih

Release dates: 10 March 1933

Running time: 88 minutes

Country: Germany

Language: German

 

Starring:

 

Magda Schneider: Christine Weyring

Wolfgang Liebeneiner: Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer

Luise Ullrich: Mizzi Schlager

Carl Esmond: Lieutenant Theo Kaiser

Olga Tschechowa: Baronin von Eggersdorff

Gustaf Gründgens: Baron von Eggersdorff

Paul Hörbiger: Old Weyring, Christine’s father

Paul Otto: Major von Eggersdorf, the baron’s brother

 

Plot

 

In Vienna during the late Imperial era, a love affair between a young lieutenant and a musician’s daughter ends tragically when the lieutenant is killed in a duel, and the girl commits suicide.