Moving Pictures: The European Films of Max Ophüls

In 1936, Ophüls left France for the Netherlands, where he was ironically (or fittingly) granted an extravagant budget for this parable about the vagaries of capitalism in which a bank courier bounces between economic calamity and monetary bonanza. Not a penny was wasted on the virtuoso camera movement and subjective compositions of renowned cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan. In Dutch with English subtitles.
(The Netherlands, 1936, 35mm, b/w, 88 min.)