Marcel Ophüls Movies

The process of making Shoah.

We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion...

Commissioned by French TV, Yorktown covers the bicentennial commemoration of the Siege of Yorktown, near the end of the American Revolutionary War,...

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on...

An interview with French documentarian Marcel Ophüls about his father Max Ophüls, regarding Max's arrival in Hollywood, how he received...

Philippe Roger found the secretary of director Max Ophüls, Ulla de Colstoun, and Valere his first assistant, mobilized them on his project and,...

A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of film director Max Ophuls’s...

Television film

From his childhood in the lowlands of northern France to his death in Nice, a look at the life of painter Matisse: his early education, his...

In 1970, the return of Ophuls to the United States from his adolescence, then mired in Vietnam: direct testimonies on the evolution of mentalities,...

Documentary about director Fritz Korner

A famous American secret service agent tries to rescue a German 17-year-old prodigy scientist who has been captured by the Russians.

Storyville's Nick Fraser meets German-French documentary film maker and former actor, Marcel Ophüls.