Personal Info
Marcel Wall
Marcel Ophüls
Directing
Biography
Marcel Ophuls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]; born 1 November 1927) was 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 Spai…
Filmography
Movies
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
as Self (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
A Deal Made in a Turkish Bath
as Self
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
as Self
Ain't Misbehavin
as Self
Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais
as Self
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
as Self
Marcel Ophuls: The Memory Hunter
as Self
A Journey Through Le Plaisir
as himself
The Troubles We've Seen
as Self
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
as Self (archive footage)
