Die Marquise von O- / Film produktion Janus, Artemis, HR, Les Films du Losange, Gaumont ; [Produzents] Barbet Schroeder, Klaus Hellwig ; ... von Eric Rohmer inszeniert.
Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr, Otto Sander. Based on a novella by Heinrich von Kleist. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976. A foreign film (West Germany, France). Special features: filmographies & awards, production credits.
Summary:
During the Franco-Prussian war, a young widow who is saved from an attempted rape finds herself mysteriously pregnant several months later. Unaware of how this happened, she is sent away by her family and ends up marrying her rescuer.
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