Lola Montes
Synopsis
New Orleans, the 19th century. A baroque circus is dramatizing the scandalous life of the courtisan Lola Montes—starring Lola herself. Answering the audience’s most indiscreet questions, as the ringmaster provides commentary, Lola must look back on the highlights of her life:
from her girlhood when her mother's lover became attached to the daughter; her unhappy marriage and its aftermath; romances with composer Franz Liszt, abduction by a Russian general; her affairs across the landscape of Europe with the great and noble; her thwarted aspirations as a dancer; and her romance with King Ludwig I, which led to her being made Countess of Landsfeld, and, later, to his abdication. Forced to flee, she has been reduced to poverty that has led to this circus. Will her tragic end be the final attraction: the leap of death?
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Actors (31)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Gamma-Film
- Co-production : Florida Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Jeudi
- French distribution : Gamma-Film
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producers : Albert Caraco, André Haguet
- Adaptation : Annette Wademant, Max Ophuls
- Screenwriter : Max Ophuls
- Dialogue Writer : Jacques Natanson
- Director of Photography : Christian Matras
- Music Composer : Georges Auric
- Assistant directors : Claude Pinoteau, Marcel Wall, Tony Aboyantz, Ully Pickardt, Marcel Ophüls, Alain Jessua
- Editors : Madeleine Gug, Jacqueline Sadoul
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Petitjean
- Costume designer : Georges Annenkov
- Foreign Producer : Anton Schelkopf
- Author of original work : Jacques Laurent
- Assistant Operator : Ernest Bourreaud
- Camera Operator : Alain Douarinou
- Production Manager : Ralph Baum
- Assistant editor : Etiennette Muse
- Continuity supervisor : Lucie Lichtig
- Production Designer : Jean D'Eaubonne
- Art Director : Willy Schatz
- Sound Mixer : Jean Nény
- Still Photographer : Raymond Voinquel
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Circus
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Germany)
- Production year : 1955
- French release : 23/12/1955
- Runtime : 1 h 56 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 15.936
- Visa issue date : 22/12/1955
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Digital DTS
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About
Release
This would be the last film directed by Ophüls before his death of a heart attack in March 1957. As originally shown in France in 1955, the audience sees the events of Lola Montès' life through the use of flashbacks. Use of the technique was criticized upon its release and the movie did poorly at the box office. In response, the producers re-cut the film and shortened it in favor of a more chronological storyline, against the director's wishes.
According to Roger Ebert, a "savagely butchered version was in circulation for a few years" following Ophuls' death. The film critic Andrew Sarris and others eventually showed improved versions, progressively closer to the original, at the New York Film Festival in 1963 and 1968.
Restoration
Certain elements remained missing and believed lost, but the recent discovery of the lost footage allowed a new version to be edited according to Ophul's original intentions. It was shown at the New York Film Festival in the restored version on Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008.
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