Birth Chart
Max Ophüls
Maximillian Oppenheimer
Sun Taurus
Moon Aries
Ascendant Leo
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Taurus - 14°56' - in house 10
↣ Moon in Aries - 23°38' - in house 10
↣ Mercury in Taurus - 23°38' - in house 10/11
↣ Venus in Pisces - 29°05' - in house 9
↣ Mars in Taurus - 06°41' - in house 10
↣ Jupiter in Aquarius - 15°47' - in house 7
↣ Saturn in Capricorn - 27°48' - in house 6
↣ Uranus in Sagittarius - 20°38' - in house 5 - retrograde
↣ Neptune in Gemini - 29°32' - in house 11/12
↣ Pluto in Gemini - 17°24' - in house 11
↣ North Node in Scorpio - 04°23' - in house 4
↣ Ascendant in Leo - 09°45' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Aries - 21°58' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Cancer - 18°45'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 10
↣ Moon in house 10
↣ Mercury in house 10/11
↣ Venus in house 9
↣ Mars in house 10
↣ Jupiter in house 7
↣ Saturn in house 6
↣ Uranus in house 5
↣ Neptune in house 11/12
↣ Pluto in house 11
↣ North Node in house 4
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Mercury conjunction (8°42' separating)
↣ Sun and Mars conjunction (8°15' separating)
↣ Sun and Jupiter square (0°51' applying) antiparallel
↣ Sun and Equatorial Ascendant sextile (3°49' separating)
↣ Sun and Ascendant square (5°11' applying) parallel
↣ Moon and Saturn square (4°10' applying)
↣ Moon and Uranus trine (3°00' separating)
↣ Moon and Neptune sextile (5°54' applying)
↣ Moon and Equatorial Ascendant square (4°52' applying)
↣ Moon and Midheaven conjunction (1°39' applying)
↣ Mercury and Venus sextile (5°28' applying)
↣ Mercury and Saturn trine (4°10' applying) antiparallel
↣ Mercury and Equatorial Ascendant sextile (4°52' applying)
↣ Venus and Saturn sextile (1°18' separating)
↣ Venus and Neptune square (0°27' applying)
↣ Mars and Pluto parallel
↣ Mars and North Node opposition (2°18' separating) antiparallel
↣ Mars and Ascendant square (3°04' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Uranus sextile (4°50' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Pluto trine (1°37' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Ascendant opposition (6°03' applying)
↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (9°03' applying)
↣ Saturn and Midheaven square (5°50' applying)
↣ Uranus and Neptune antiparallel
↣ Uranus and Pluto opposition (3°14' applying)
↣ Uranus and Midheaven trine (1°20' separating)
↣ Neptune and North Node trine (4°51' applying)
↣ Pluto and Midheaven sextile (4°34' separating)
↣ North Node and Ascendant square (5°22' separating)
Birth data
- Original name
- Maximillian Oppenheimer
- Chart date
- 06/05/1902
- Chart time
- 11:00
- Date and time quality
- AA Birth record in hand what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Saarbrücken, Germany - Latitude and longitude
- 49°14' North · 6°59' East
- Time zone
- 01:00 East
The data used to calculate the charts comes from public sources, as do the descriptive texts. We use sources such as Wikipedia.
About
Max Ophüls was a filmmaker and stage director born in Germany whose career spanned theatres and film industries across Europe and the United States. Trained in the theatre, he directed around two hundred plays before moving into cinema in the late 1920s, where he distinguished himself as a screenwriter and director. His early European films include Liebelei (1933), which already displays his recurring concerns: the vulnerability of women in the face of an unforgiving society and the tension between outward glamour and inner ruin.
Persecuted by antisemitism, he went into exile in France in 1933, became a French citizen in 1938 and continued to make literary adaptations and domestic dramas, collaborating with actresses such as Edwige Feuillère and Danielle Darrieux. After a period in Hollywood during the Second World War, he made Lettre d’une inconnue (1948) in English before returning to Europe, where he directed key titles such as La Ronde, Le Plaisir, Madame de… and Lola Montès.
His stylistic hallmark — fluid camera movements and complex use of cranes, dollies and long tracking shots — influenced later generations of directors. Celebrated for combining technical virtuosity with a sensitivity to stories about fate and society, he left a lasting legacy on twentieth‑century European cinema.
