Marcel Ophüls

Interview with Oscar-winning documentarian Marcel Ophüls about his father Max Ophuls.

The process of making Shoah.

18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the funniest as well. And the most forceful. The director of The Sorrow and the Pity shares with us stories of his exceptionally rich life in this light-hearted yet bitter escapade though the century and the movies. Son of the great Max Ophuls, he is generous in his admiration. We also meet Jeanne Moreau, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and of course François Truffaut. There are no great filmmakers without a memory, so here is the memory shop of Marcel Ophuls.

18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the funniest as well. And the most forceful. The director of The Sorrow and the Pity shares with us stories of his exceptionally rich life in this light-hearted yet bitter escapade though the century and the movies. Son of the great Max Ophuls, he is generous in his admiration. We also meet Jeanne Moreau, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and of course François Truffaut. There are no great filmmakers without a memory, so here is the memory shop of Marcel Ophuls.

In 2009, in a small theater in Geneva, Switzerland, the film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard met for an unusual, surprisngly intimate and sometimes contentious dialogue with each other in front of a live audience. Luckily for us, it was filmed.

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on "Lola Montès".

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on "Lola Montès".

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on "Lola Montès".

We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.

We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.

We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.

Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

Hôtel Terminus é um documentário realizado em 1988 dirigido por Marcel Ophüls. Com 267 minutos de duração, apresenta a vida completa do crimonoso de guerra nazista Klaus Barbie, agente da Gestapo em Lyon.

Hôtel Terminus é um documentário realizado em 1988 dirigido por Marcel Ophüls. Com 267 minutos de duração, apresenta a vida completa do crimonoso de guerra nazista Klaus Barbie, agente da Gestapo em Lyon.

Hôtel Terminus é um documentário realizado em 1988 dirigido por Marcel Ophüls. Com 267 minutos de duração, apresenta a vida completa do crimonoso de guerra nazista Klaus Barbie, agente da Gestapo em Lyon.

Hôtel Terminus é um documentário realizado em 1988 dirigido por Marcel Ophüls. Com 267 minutos de duração, apresenta a vida completa do crimonoso de guerra nazista Klaus Barbie, agente da Gestapo em Lyon.

Liberty Belle tells the story of a group of student's involvement with a group who oppose the French Algerian war. The film premiered at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.

Television film

Television film

Television film

Commissioned by French TV, Yorktown covers the bicentennial commemoration of the Siege of Yorktown, near the end of the American Revolutionary War, where the Americans and their French allies defeated the English. The festivities celebrating Franco-American friendship give Ophüls some amusement, as he takes a gleefully ironic look at the formally “friendly” meeting between Mitterand and Reagan, or exposes the absurdity of patriotic folklore.

In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman and goes to the war.

Documentary about director Fritz Korner

Documentary about director Fritz Korner

Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), um humorista judeu e divorciado que faz análise há 15 anos, acaba se apaixonando por Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), uma cantora em início de carreira com uma cabeça um pouco complicada. Em um curto espaço de tempo eles estão morando juntos, mas, depois de um certo período, crises conjugais começam a surgir entre os dois.

This exceptional, disturbing and thought-provoking documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four hour epic questions the right of any country to pass self-righteous moral judgements upon the actions of another country.

Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. The deaths of four individuals formed the central focus of the film, which Ophüls described as ‘an old, middle-aged, humanistic, social-democratic attempt to give people an idea that life after all is not that cheap’. The BBC refused to transmit the completed film on the grounds that it was ‘too pro-Irish’ (Sunday Times, 5 Nov. 1972). (via http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/docs/freespeech.htm)

Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. The deaths of four individuals formed the central focus of the film, which Ophüls described as ‘an old, middle-aged, humanistic, social-democratic attempt to give people an idea that life after all is not that cheap’. The BBC refused to transmit the completed film on the grounds that it was ‘too pro-Irish’ (Sunday Times, 5 Nov. 1972). (via http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/docs/freespeech.htm)

De 1940 a 1944 o governo de Vichy, na França, colaborou ativamente com os nazistas que ocupavam o país. Este filme expõem a história que muitos franceses preferiam continuar ignorando. A partir de Clermont-Ferrand, o filme amplia sua factuais sobre todo o Auvergne, mas também inclui depoimentos de personalidades que desempenharam um papel importante durante a guerra (soldados, estadistas, testemunhas-chave) ou que participaram ativamente nele, não necessariamente em Clermont-Ferrand ou mesmo em Auvergne. O filme é composto por entrevistas e imagens dos noticiários da época. Estes, são apresentados sem comentários, foram realizadas sob o controle da propaganda do governo de Vichy, exceto para o penúltimo deles: entrevista com Maurice Chevalier, falando em Inglês, para o público americano , referindo-se às acusações contra ele de colaboração com os alemães.

De 1940 a 1944 o governo de Vichy, na França, colaborou ativamente com os nazistas que ocupavam o país. Este filme expõem a história que muitos franceses preferiam continuar ignorando. A partir de Clermont-Ferrand, o filme amplia sua factuais sobre todo o Auvergne, mas também inclui depoimentos de personalidades que desempenharam um papel importante durante a guerra (soldados, estadistas, testemunhas-chave) ou que participaram ativamente nele, não necessariamente em Clermont-Ferrand ou mesmo em Auvergne. O filme é composto por entrevistas e imagens dos noticiários da época. Estes, são apresentados sem comentários, foram realizadas sob o controle da propaganda do governo de Vichy, exceto para o penúltimo deles: entrevista com Maurice Chevalier, falando em Inglês, para o público americano , referindo-se às acusações contra ele de colaboração com os alemães.

De 1940 a 1944 o governo de Vichy, na França, colaborou ativamente com os nazistas que ocupavam o país. Este filme expõem a história que muitos franceses preferiam continuar ignorando. A partir de Clermont-Ferrand, o filme amplia sua factuais sobre todo o Auvergne, mas também inclui depoimentos de personalidades que desempenharam um papel importante durante a guerra (soldados, estadistas, testemunhas-chave) ou que participaram ativamente nele, não necessariamente em Clermont-Ferrand ou mesmo em Auvergne. O filme é composto por entrevistas e imagens dos noticiários da época. Estes, são apresentados sem comentários, foram realizadas sob o controle da propaganda do governo de Vichy, exceto para o penúltimo deles: entrevista com Maurice Chevalier, falando em Inglês, para o público americano , referindo-se às acusações contra ele de colaboração com os alemães.

Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls investigates the massacre of My Lai by U.S. soldiers.

Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls investigates the massacre of My Lai by U.S. soldiers.

A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of film director Max Ophuls’s collaborators

A famous American secret service agent tries to rescue a German 17-year-old prodigy scientist who has been captured by the Russians.

A famous American secret service agent tries to rescue a German 17-year-old prodigy scientist who has been captured by the Russians.

Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.

A segment of “Love at Twenty” is a story of an unwed mother who contrives to trap the father of her baby.

Diretores ao redor do mundo apresentam diferentes perspectivas sobre o que é o amor aos 20 anos.

Diretores ao redor do mundo apresentam diferentes perspectivas sobre o que é o amor aos 20 anos.

From his childhood in the lowlands of northern France to his death in Nice, a look at the life of painter Matisse: his early education, his apprenticeship at the Beaux-Arts and his decades-long career as a painter, sculptor, and draftsman.

From his childhood in the lowlands of northern France to his death in Nice, a look at the life of painter Matisse: his early education, his apprenticeship at the Beaux-Arts and his decades-long career as a painter, sculptor, and draftsman.

German adaptation of The Dock Brief

Num circo decadente, a cortesã Lola Montes (1820-1861) estrela um espetáculo sobre a sua vida de aventuras, marcada pelos romances com o compositor Franz Liszt e o rei Ludwig I da Baviera. Por meio de flashbacks, entramos no universo de memórias dessa fascinante e melancólica personagem.

The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.