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Lola Montès is a 1955 historical romance film and the last completed film of German-born director Max Ophüls.
Lola Montès: Directed by Max Ophüls. With Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol. When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Max Ophüls
- 1955-12-23
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld [1] (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez ( / moʊnˈtɛz / ), was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Gräfin von Landsfeld ( Countess of Landsfeld ).
Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster ...
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LOLA MONTES Trailer (1955) - The Criterion Collection. Max Ophuls's final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with...
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His story involves the infamous Lola Montes, "The Most Scandalous Woman in the World," the mistress of Franz Liszt and King Ludwig of Bavaria, of students and artists, of soldiers and ringmasters. We find her in a New Orleans circus, the star attraction in a review of her sensational career.
Nov 10, 1986 · A 140-minute Cinemascope super-production budgeted at 648 million francs with hordes of extras and lavish sets, Lola Montès was the most expensive motion picture made in France up to that time.
