Marquise of O
(Die Marquise von O...)
Screening on Film
Directed by Eric Rohmer.
With Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Peter Lühr.
West Germany/ France, 1975, 35mm, color, 102 min.
German with English subtitles.
With Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Peter Lühr.
West Germany/ France, 1975, 35mm, color, 102 min.
German with English subtitles.
In one of his first major roles in the cinema, Ganz co-starred with Edith Clever in this brilliant adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's classic novella. During the early 18th century, the Marquise of O (Clever), a widow with two children, is raped by an officer from the invading Russian army, Count F (Ganz). Discovering that she is pregnant, the Marquise confronts her assailant and demands that he marry her. The film features striking camerawork by Nestor Almendros, who based much of the film's look on the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich.
