Events in Lola Montès’ life are related by a ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) in a circus where she’s now an object of morbid curiosity; flashbacks show her own memories.
A film about objectification, patriarchy, spectacle and storytelling itself, then, is delivered with great visual panache.
Lola Montès (1955)
Ringmaster Peter Ustinov recounts the events of dancer and courtesan Lola Montès’s life.
- 1955 France, Federal Republic of Germany
- Directed by
- Max Ophuls
- Produced by
- André Haguet, Alfred Zappelli, Anton Schelkopf, Emil E. Reinegger
- Written by
- Max Ophuls, Claude Heymann
- Featuring
- Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook
- Running time
- 140 minutes
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