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The Marquise of O
Eric Rohmer
(1976)
98min
bbfc_rating|parental_guidance Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
Ronald Bergan
One of Eric Rohmer's extremely rare departures from France and the present, this elegant version of Heinrich von Kleist's classic novella is set in 18th-century Italy during the Franco-Prussian War. It concerns a virtuous widow who is drugged, then raped by an officer in the invading Russian army. When she finds herself pregnant, she marries the man, not realising it was he who raped her. Shooting in Germany, in German with members of Peter Stein's Berlin theatre, Rohmer seems perfectly at ease with the ironic nuances of the delicate story. Without actual imitation, Rohmer and his cinematographer Nestor Almendros were inspired by German Romantic painters and bathe the neo-classical interiors in an unearthly light.
Summary
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Cast & Crew
Marquise
Edith Clever
Count
Bruno Ganz
Marquise's father
Peter Lühr
Marquise's mother
Edda Seippel
Marquise's brother
Otto Sander
Midwife
Ruth Drexel
Director
Eric Rohmer
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Other Information
Language:
German +subtitles
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
Gala Film Dists Ltd
Available on:
video, DVD and Blu-ray
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