Lola Montès (1955)

Directors

Max Ophüls

Cast

Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Adolf Wohlbrück, Henri Guisol, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost, Oskar Werner, Jean Galland, Will Quadflieg, Héléna Manson, Germaine Delbat, Carl Esmond, Jacques Fayet, Friedrich Domin, Werner Finck, Ivan Desny

The story

In New Orleans in the 1850s, a whip-wielding ringmaster announces to the crowd the “attraction of the century” and “the most interesting predator” of his circus: the former royal mistress Maria Dolores Porriz y Montez, Countess von Landsfeld, known as Lola Montez. Richly adorned, she is carried into the ring to take questions from the audience. Each question costs 25 cents, which are not intended as a payment for Lola, as the ringmaster announces, since she will donate them to a correctional home for fallen women.

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