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Marcel Ophüls
Directing
01 Nov 1927
† 24 May 2025
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Biography
Marcel Ophuls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]; born 1 November 1927) was a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films The Sorrow and the Pity and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie. Ophuls was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Hildegard Wall and the director Max Ophüls. His family left Germany in 1933 following the coming to power of the Nazi Party and settled in Paris, France. Following the invasion of France by Germany in May 1940 they were forced t...
Also Known As
Marcel Wall
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Marcel Ophüls's Movies
71%
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
01 Nov 1988
52%
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
28 Oct 1980
69%
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
25 Apr 2015
51%
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
14 May 1993
31%
Liberty Belle
14 Sept 1983
62%
Ain't Misbehavin
16 May 2013
85%
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
20 Mar 2024
57%
November Days
16 Feb 1991
50%
The Troubles We've Seen
23 Nov 1994
70%
Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais
07 Apr 2011
40%
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
26 Oct 1965
0%
Marcel Ophuls: The Memory Hunter
10 Jul 2004
0%
Festspiele
01 Jan 1982
0%
Das schöne irre Judenmädchen
08 Feb 1984
0%
A Journey Through Le Plaisir
01 Jan 2002
0%
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
27 Oct 2009
0%
A Deal Made in a Turkish Bath
01 Jan 2017
