A Man Has Been Stolen (1934)

Original title

On a volé un homme

Directed by

Max Ophüls

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is taken from his ordinary life. This is a 1934 French drama about loss and change. The film was made by exiled filmmakers in Paris.

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What happens

A Man Has Been Stolen (French: On a volé un homme) is a 1934 French drama film directed by the German director Max Ophüls and starring Lili Damita, Henri Garat and Raoul Marco. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Heilbronner. The film was produced by Erich Pommer, recently escaped from Nazi-controlled Germany, for the European subsidiary of Fox Film. Many of the filmmakers employed were refugees from Nazi Germany. Pommer also produced another film simultaneously Liliom, a romance film directed by Fritz Lang. Ophüls later suggested that he felt that the two directors had each been assigned to the wrong production "had we exchanged the films Lang most likely would have made an extraordinary mystery and I a very good romantic comedy". Neither film was very successful at the box office. It is now a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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