Max Ophüls
Maximillian Oppenheimer
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Born Maximillian Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken to a Jewish textile merchant, he adopted the name Ophüls while beginning a stage career in 1919, later directing at the Dortmund city theater and serving as creative director of Vienna’s Burgtheater. After directing roughly two hundred plays, he entered cinema in 1929 as a dialogue director for UFA Berlin and released his first short, Dann schon lieber L…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
