Marcel Ophüls
| Marcel Ophuls | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 November 1927 Frankfurt, Germany |
| Citizenship | France and United States of America |
| Education | Hollywood High School |
| Alma mater |
Occidental College, Los Angeles University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Film maker |
| Years active | 1950–present |
| Notable work |
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) |
| Parent(s) |
Max Ophüls Hildegard Wall |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (1988) |
Marcel Ophuls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]; born 1 November 1927) is an Oscar-winning 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 Spain in order to travel to the United States, arriving there in December 1941. Marcel attended Hollywood High School, then Occidental College, Los Angeles. He spent a brief period in serving in a U.S. Army theatrical unit in Japan in 1946, then studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Ophuls became a naturalized citizen of France in 1938, and of the United States in 1950.
When the family returned to Paris in 1950 Marcel became an assistant to Julien Duvivier and Anatole Litvak, and worked on John Huston’s Moulin Rouge (1952) and his father’s Lola Montès (1955). Through François Truffaut, Ophuls got to direct an episode of the portmanteau film Love At Twenty (1962). There followed the commercial hit Banana Peel (1964), a detective film starring Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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