Letter from an Unknown Woman Summary, Review, Cast & Crew

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Letter from an Unknown Woman
Running Time: 90 min.
Produced By: / Rampart Productions / Universal
Release By: Universal

Summary:
Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, the film stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman who falls in love with a concert pianist. Set in Vienna in 1900, the story is told in a complex flashback structure as the pia... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
Joan Fontaine (Lisa Berndle)
Louis Jourdan (Stefan Brand)
Mady Christians (Frau Berndle)
Marcel Journet (Johann Stauffer)
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Review:
A lush story of unrequited love in turn-of-the-century Vienna, Max Ophüls's Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) sumptuously visualizes the emotional power of one woman's life-long fixation on a selfish man. The title missive from Joan Fontaine's "unk ... Continue >>