Director: | Max Ophüls |
Producer: | |
Story: | Felix Salten |
Music: | Theo Mackeben |
Cinematography: | Franz Planer |
Editing: | Friedel Buckow |
Studio: | Elite Tonfilm |
Runtime: | 88 minutes |
Country: | Germany |
Language: | German |
is a 1933 German period drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Magda Schneider, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, and Luise Ullrich.
In Vienna during the late Imperial era, a love affair between a young lieutenant and a musician's daughter ends tragically when the lieutenant is killed in a duel, and the girl commits suicide.
Liebelei was directed by Max Ophüls and produced by Elite Tonfilm. The film, based on a play of the same name (Liebelei) by Arthur Schnitzler, describes an ill-fated love affair. A 1927 silent film version was previously produced. A separate French-language version – A Love Story (1934) – was also released, using most of the original cast.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Gabriel Pellon. Location shooting took place in Berlin and Vienna.
After World War II the film was approved for showing in occupied Germany by the United Kingdom, but was banned by the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft in 1951.