Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film)

• Joan Fontaine: Lisa Berndl
• Louis Jourdan: Stefan Brand
• Mady Christians: Woman Berndl
• Marcel Journet: Baron Johann Stauffer
• Art Smith: John
• Carol Yorke: Marie
• John Good: Lieutenant Leopold of cold Egger
• Leo B. Pessin: Stefan
• Erskine Sanford: carrier
• Otto Waldis: caretaker
• Sonja Bryden: Mrs. Spitzer
• Willy Trenk - Trebitsch: Fritzel

Letter from an Unknown is an American film directed by Max Ophüls from the year 1948. It is based on the novel by Stefan Zweig Letter from an Unknown. The film had its April 28, 1948 in the U.S. premiere.

Content

The fifteen- year-old Lisa falls in love with the concert pianist Stefan Brand, who lives in the same apartment building with her. The love continues even when the girl moved with his mother from Vienna to Linz. When the girl then pulls with 18 years back to Vienna, she seeks to Stefan Brand and meets him actually know. However, this can not remember them and forget them just as quickly. From their shared love night comes from a child rearing promoting the now wife alone. As a single parent she meets Johann; the two married. Even years later, Stefan Brand recognizes still not back with a renewed encounter Lisa.

Awards

The film was shot in 1992 in the National Film Registry.

Criticism

" Tragic love story based on a novella by Stefan Zweig - a poetic, atmospheric film that evokes the morbid charm of Old Vienna and demonstrates the fragility of human relationships psychologically significantly. "