A letter from unknown woman

With Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet. A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall. It was based on the novella of the same name by Stefan Zweig.

The film stars Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, and Marcel Journet. It is like Hamlet rewritten for Mills and Boon.

There are dramatic scenes, but only the barest shadow of the structured storyline now considered essential in a Hollywood film.

Classic melodrama in which a young woman falls in love with a concert pianist, beginning a lifelong infatuation. The story of unrequited love is told through a series.

This nameless young woman reached her unaware lover with this long letter by telling their memories from first day. Vienna after a refreshing three-day stay in the mountains and bought a newspaper at the train station, he realized on glancing at the date that today was his birthday. The forty-first, he quickly thought, and this realisation made neither a good nor a bad impression on him. Thirty Million Words.

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Just would like to share one of my favourite quotes from it: “Allow me, belove to tell you the whole story from the beginning. In which this latter gives a detailed account of her life to the writer. It contains no material likely to offend or harm. Incapable of marshalling the verbal resources necessary to convince him of her passion, she begins, in picturesque, atmospherically lit closeup, to cry.

Letter From An Unknown Woman Review. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. It gives, in fact, apparently more intense pleasure than anything else on earth.

A rich and well-known writer, returning home to Vienna from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman. As a teenager she had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming man himself. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.

Starring Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians and Marcel Journet. Adaptations can take some or all elements from the original work. This can cause the meaning of the. When short stories.

A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. Her story spans years from the moment she, then a year-old girl, sets her eyes on her new neighbor. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on.

Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time.

More exactly, it is about knowledge and ignorance of people. World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive collection ever assembled. Lisa (Joan Fontaine) - an " unknown woman, " revealed in a letter (in female voice-over) written to self-absorbe frivolous dilettante concert pianist Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan) - after her death at St. By the time you read this letter, I may be dead.

Synopsis for this movie has been provided by The Movie Database. It’s a typically Zweigian scenario. AKA: Brief einer Unbekannten. This is the love every woman lives for.