Letter from an Unknown Woman

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Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

Btl 04/28/1948 (US) Drama, Romance 1h 27m

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This is the love every woman lives for…the love every man would die for!

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A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

Stefan Zweig

Author, Novel
Max Ophüls

Director
Howard Koch

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Joan Fontaine

Lisa Berndle
Louis Jourdan

Stefan Brand
Mady Christians

Frau Berndle
Marcel Journet

Johann Stauffer
Art Smith

John
Carol Yorke

Marie
Howard Freeman

Herr Kastner
John Good

Lt. Leopold von Kaltnegger
Leo B. Pessin

Stefan Jr.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman is directed by Max Ophuls, who also co-adapts the screenplay with Howard Koch from the novella written by Stefan Zweig. It stars Joan Fontaine, Louis Jordan, Mady Christians, Art Smith and Howard Freeman. Music is by Daniele Amfitheatrof and cinematography by Franz Planer.

Masterpiece, the very definition of classic cinema is right here, a film that is both beautiful and tragic, a piece of cinema that’s crafted with such great skill by all involved it’s hard to believe some critics turned their noses up at it back on its original release.... read the rest.

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