Moving Pictures: The European Films of Max Ophüls

Liebelei was to be Ophüls’s last German production before his exile to parts west. In the film, a young lieutenant falls deeply in love with a musician’s daughter, only to have his hopes dashed by a past indiscretion. Released without credit to Ophüls, the tragedy played to great success in Nazi Germany, in spite of its critical take on military hypocrisy. In German with English subtitles. (Germany, 1933, 35mm, b/w, 88 min.)