In pre WWI Vienna, two officers meet a pair of pretty girls (one of them Magda Schneider, mother of Romy Schneider), when they let a pair of opera glasses fall from their box. Based on a story by Artur Schnitzler, perhaps most famous for his play about loveless sexual encounters, REIGEN (also adapted into LA RONDE, another Ophuls film he made in France decades later), LIEBELEI is one of cinema’s most memorable romances. Famous for the skillful grace of his always moving camera, Ophuls here captures an incredibly touching love story.