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In a film by this director, a character looks at a picture of his son in a hot air balloon as the mother’s voiceover says that he “could have found what was never lost.” Two of this director’s characters meet again at a performance of The Magic Flute years after sharing a romantic night at a fun-fair. At the end of that film by this director, a playboy sees a ghostly image of a dead lover fade away as he enters a carriage to fight a (*) duel with her husband. During a four-movie stint in Hollywood, (10[1])this director used many of his signature crane and tracking shots in an adaptation of a Stefan Zweig novella in which Lisa Berndle falls in love with an oblivious (10[1])Viennese pianist. For 10 points, name this German-born director of Letter From an Unknown (10[1])Woman, as well as The Earrings of Madame de… ■END■

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