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Uniform Title Lola Montès (Motion picture)
Title Lola Montès / Gamma-Film prèsente ; un film de Max Ophuls ; scenario de Max Ophuls ; adaptation de Annette Wademant et Max Ophuls ; dialogue de Jacques Natanson ; ; une co-production Gamma, Florida, Union Films ; producteur délégué, Albert Caraco.

Publication Info. [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2009.
1955.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Audio Visual  DVD LOLA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD FOREIGN LOLA DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
Description 2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : portraits ; 19 cm.).
Series Criterion collection ; 503
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 503.
System Details DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.55:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., restored High-Definition digital transfer, NTSC.
Cast Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henry Guisol, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost, Oskar Werner, Jean Galland, Will Quadflieg, Helena Manson, Germaine Delbat, Willy Eichberger, Jacques Fayet, Friedrich Domin, Werner Finck, Ivan Desny.
Credits Production designer, Jean D'Eaubonne ; music by Georges Auric ; conductor, Jacques Météhen ; editor, Madeleine Gug ; production manager, Ralph Baum director of photography, Christian Matras.
Note Based on the novel by Cécil Saint-Laurent.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
"Les Films du Jeudi"--Container.
"La Cinémathèque française"--Container.
Summary The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
Note Special features: Disc one: Audio commentary featuring film scholar Susan White. Disc two: "Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner:" a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of Ophuls's collaborators; "Max by Marcel:" a new documentary by Marcel Ophuls about his father and the making of Lola Montès; "Martine Carole hair tests" Martine Carol demonstrating the various hairstyles in Lola Montés; Rerelease trailer. Booklet: "Loving Lola" essay by critic Gary Giddins.
Contents disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Supplements.
Language French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Saint-Laurent, Cécil, 1919-2000 -- Film adaptations.
Montez, Lola, 1818-1861 -- Drama.
Courtesans -- France -- Drama.
Circus performers -- Drama.
Circus -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Genre/Form Romance films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Added Author Ophuls, Max, 1902-1957. Screenwriter. Director.
Wademant, Annette, 1928-2017. Screenwriter.
Natanson, Jacques, 1901-1975. Screenwriter.
Matras, Christian, 1903-1977. Screenwriter.
Caraco, Albert. Producer.
Carol, Martine, 1920-1967. Actor.
Ustinov, Peter. Actor.
Walbrook, Anton, 1896-1967. Actor.
Guisol, Henri, 1904-1994. Actor.
Delamare, Lise. Actor.
Dubost, Paulette. Actor.
Werner, Oskar, 1922-1984. Actor.
Galland, Jean, 1887-1967. Actor.
Quadflieg, Will. Actor.
Manson, Héléna, 1898-1994. Actor.
Delbat, Germaine, 1904-1988. Actor.
Esmond, Carl, 1904-2004. Actor.
Fayet, Jacques. Actor.
Domin, Friedrich, 1902-1961. Actor.
Finck, Werner, 1902-1978. Actor.
Desny, Ivan. Actor.
Eaubonne, Jean d', 1903-1971. Designer.
Auric, Georges, 1899-1983. Composer.
Météhen, Jacques. Conductor.
Gug, Madeleine, 1913-1971. Film editor.
Baum, Ralph. Production manager.
Saint-Laurent, Cécil, 1919-2000. Lola Montes.
Gamma Films (Firm)
Florida Films (Company)
Union Film (Firm)
Films du Jeudi (Firm)
Cinémathèque française.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN 9781604652321
1604652322
Standard No. 715515052610
Music No. CC1865D Criterion Collection
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