Marcel Ophüls

Marcel Ophüls

Marcel Ophuls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]; born 1 November 1927) is 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 to flee to the Vichy zone, remaining in hiding for over a year before crossing the Pyrenees into Spain in order to travel to the United States, arriving there in December 1941. Marcel attended Hollywood High School, then Occidental College, Los Angeles. He spent a brief period serving in a U.S. Army theatrical unit in Japan in 1946, then studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Ophuls became a naturalized citizen of France in 1938, and of the United States in 1950. When the family returned to Paris in 1950 Marcel became an assistant to Julien Duvivier and Anatole Litvak, and worked on John Huston's Moulin Rouge (1952) and his father's Lola Montès (1955). Through François Truffaut, Ophuls got to direct an episode of the portmanteau film Love at Twenty (1962). There followed the commercial hit Banana Peel (1964), a detective film starring Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo. With a slump in box-office fortunes, Ophuls turned to television news reporting and a documentary on the Munich crisis of 1938: Munich (1967). He then embarked on his examination of France under Nazi occupation, The Sorrow and the Pity. Although he enjoyed making entertaining films, Ophuls became identified as a documentarian, using a characteristically sober interview style to resolve disparate experiences into a persuasive argument. A Sense of Loss (1972) looked at Northern Ireland, and The Memory of Justice (1973) was an ambitious comparison of US policy in Vietnam and the atrocities of the Nazis. Disagreements with his French backers over interpretation led Ophuls to smuggle a print to New York where it was shown privately. Legal wrangles left him disappointed and financially broke, and Ophuls turned to university lecturing. In the mid-1970s, he began producing documentaries for CBS and ABC. His feature documentary Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) won an Academy Award; since then he has made an interview film with two senior East German Communists, November Days (1992) and a ruminative look at how journalists cover war, The Trouble We've Seen (1994). Every year the IDFA (International Documentary Festival) in Amsterdam screens an acclaimed filmmaker's ten favorite films. In 2007, Iranian filmmaker Maziar Bahari selected The Sorrow and the Pity for his top ten classics from the history of documentary. At the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015 Ophuls received the Berlinale Camera award for his life work.

  • Title: Marcel Ophüls
  • Popularity: 1.128
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1927-11-01
  • Place of Birth: Francfort, Allemagne
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  • Also Known As: Marcel Wall
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Marcel Ophüls Movies

  • 1988
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    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    7 1988 HD

    Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in...

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  • 2013
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    Ain't Misbehavin

    Ain't Misbehavin

    6.2 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Marcel Ophuls et Jean-Luc Godard, La rencontre de St-Gervais

    Marcel Ophuls et Jean-Luc Godard, La rencontre de St-Gervais

    7 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    Marcel Ophuls: The Memory Hunter

    Marcel Ophuls: The Memory Hunter

    1 2004 HD

    Storyville's Nick Fraser meets German-French documentary film maker and former actor, Marcel Ophüls.

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  • 1982
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    Festspiele

    Festspiele

    1 1982 HD

    Television film

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  • 1983
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    Liberty Belle

    Liberty Belle

    3.6 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    Das schöne irre Judenmädchen

    Das schöne irre Judenmädchen

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2015
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    Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

    Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

    6.9 2015 HD

    The process of making Shoah.

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  • 2002
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    A Journey Through Le Plaisir

    A Journey Through Le Plaisir

    1 2002 HD

    Philippe Roger found the secretary of director Max Ophüls, Ulla de Colstoun, and Valere his first assistant, mobilized them on his project and,...

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  • 1965
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    Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde

    Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde

    4 1965 HD

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

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  • 2009
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    Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

    Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

    1 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    A Deal Made in a Turkish Bath

    A Deal Made in a Turkish Bath

    1 2017 HD

    An interview with French documentarian Marcel Ophüls about his father Max Ophüls, regarding Max's arrival in Hollywood, how he received...

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  • 1993
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    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    5.1 1993 HD

    Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...

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  • 1991
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    November Days

    November Days

    5.7 1991 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment

    Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment

    5.5 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    The Troubles We've Seen

    The Troubles We've Seen

    5 1994 HD

    We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion...

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  • 1965
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    Place Your Bets, Ladies

    Place Your Bets, Ladies

    4 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    Place Your Bets, Ladies

    Place Your Bets, Ladies

    4 1965 HD

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  • 1967
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    Munich, or Peace in Our Time

    Munich, or Peace in Our Time

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Munich, or Peace in Our Time

    Munich, or Peace in Our Time

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Harvest of My Lai

    The Harvest of My Lai

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Harvest of My Lai

    The Harvest of My Lai

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1962
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    Munich

    Munich

    5.8 1962 HD

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  • 1962
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    Love at Twenty

    Love at Twenty

    6.7 1962 HD

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  • 1988
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    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    7 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    7 1988 HD

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  • 1963
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    Banana Peel

    Banana Peel

    5.7 1963 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Memory of Justice

    The Memory of Justice

    7.1 1976 HD

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  • 1994
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    The Troubles We've Seen

    The Troubles We've Seen

    5 1994 HD

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  • 1994
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    The Troubles We've Seen

    The Troubles We've Seen

    5 1994 HD

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  • 2013
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    Ain't Misbehavin

    Ain't Misbehavin

    6.2 2013 HD

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  • 1973
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    A Sense of Loss

    A Sense of Loss

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1973
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    A Sense of Loss

    A Sense of Loss

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Memory of Justice

    The Memory of Justice

    7.1 1976 HD

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  • 1991
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    November Days

    November Days

    5.7 1991 HD

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  • 1970
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    Zwei ganze Tage

    Zwei ganze Tage

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1977
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    Annie Hall

    Annie Hall

    7.7 1977 HD

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  • 1960
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    Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur

    Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1970
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    Clavigo

    Clavigo

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Zwei ganze Tage

    Zwei ganze Tage

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1982
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    Festspiele

    Festspiele

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1960
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    Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur

    Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1958
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    Das Pflichtmandat

    Das Pflichtmandat

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1982
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    Festspiele

    Festspiele

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1980
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    Kortnergeschichten

    Kortnergeschichten

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    Kortnergeschichten

    Kortnergeschichten

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Girl with the Whip

    The Girl with the Whip

    1 1952 HD

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  • 2009
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    Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

    Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

    Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1988
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    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    7 1988 HD

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  • 1955
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    Lola Montès

    Lola Montès

    6.8 1955 HD

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  • 1982
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    Yorktown: The Meaning of a Victory

    Yorktown: The Meaning of a Victory

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1962
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    Love at Twenty

    Love at Twenty

    6.7 1962 HD

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  • 1991
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    November Days

    November Days

    5.7 1991 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Memory of Justice

    The Memory of Justice

    7.1 1976 HD

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  • 1963
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    Banana Peel

    Banana Peel

    5.7 1963 HD

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  • 1974
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    Spécial cinéma

    Spécial cinéma

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1964
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    Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

    Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Sorrow and the Pity

    The Sorrow and the Pity

    7.8 1969 HD

    An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, between the Vichy regime,...

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  • 1982
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    Wortwechsel

    Wortwechsel

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1990
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    Zeil um Zehn

    Zeil um Zehn

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1970
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    Zeil um Zehn

    Zeil um Zehn

    7.8 1970 HD

    An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, between the Vichy regime,...

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  • 1970
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    Zeil um Zehn

    Zeil um Zehn

    7.8 1970 HD

    An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, between the Vichy regime,...

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  • 1970
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    Zeil um Zehn

    Zeil um Zehn

    7.8 1970 HD

    An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, between the Vichy regime,...

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