German with English subtitles. Based on a novella by Heinrich von Kleist. Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz.
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, whom she doesn't know is the child's father.
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