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Letter From an Unknown Woman

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama, Romance
Release Date:April 28, 1948
Running time:86 minutes
Cast:Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Director:Max Ophüls
Producer:John Houseman
Writer:Howard Koch, Stefan Zweig
Distributor:Universal Pictures

Description: On a rainy night in turn-of-the-century Vienna, Stefan Brand's friends drive him home and tell him they will return to collect him for his duel at dawn. Stefan informs his mute butler John that he has no intention of keeping this appointment, and instructs him to have a carriage ready in an hour. He then finds a letter waiting for him and is astonished by the first line: By the time you read this letter I may be dead. The letter goes on to describe the writer's lifelong love for Stefan and pines for the life they could have had.

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