Lola Montes / Gamma-Film, Florida, Union Films ; un film de Max Ophuls ; scénario de Max Ophuls ; adaptation de Annette Wademant et Max Ophuls ; dialogue de Jacques Natanson ; directeur de la production, Ralph Baum ; producteur délégué, Albert Caraco = a film by Max Ophuls ; screenplay, Max Ophuls, Annette Wademant, Max Ophuls ; dialogue, Jacques Natanson ; producer, Ralph Baum ; executive producer, Albert Caraco.
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook. Based on the novel La vie extraordinaire de Lola Montes, by Cecil Saint-Laurent. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955. A foreign film (France, West Germany).
Summary:
Depicts, through flashbacks, the life of a famous courtesan, recounted as part of a lavish circus act. The ringmaster introduces and displays Lola Montés who recalls her romances with Franz Liszt, a student, and Ludwig, King of Bavaria before she was reduced by scandal, poverty and ill fortune to her present life as a circus performer.
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