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Marcel Ophüls
Director 1927 - 2025

Marcel Ophüls

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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5 titles
Veillées d'armes

Veillées d'armes

Marcel Ophüls 1994 3h 44m

We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.

Hôtel Terminus

Hôtel Terminus

Marcel Ophüls 1988 4h 28m

A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.

The Memory of Justice

The Memory of Justice

Marcel Ophüls 1976 4h 38m

This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam.

Faites vos jeux, mesdames

Faites vos jeux, mesdames

Marcel Ophüls 1965 1h 26m

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

Peau de banane

Peau de banane

Marcel Ophüls 1963 1h 37m 7.0

The French comedy-drama of Marcel Ophuls, which came to the Paris yesterday.

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