A Woman at Her Window (1976)

Original title

Une femme à sa fenêtre

Directed by

Pierre Granier-Deferre

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

U

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1930s Greece, a wealthy woman hides a union leader who is wanted by the police. She risks her safety and her comfortable life to help him escape.

melancholictenseromanticpoliticalatmosphericslow-burnretrointimate

What happens

A Woman at Her Window (French: Une femme à sa fenêtre) is a 1976 French drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, starring Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux and Umberto Orsini. Based on the 1929 novel Hotel Acropolis by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, it tells the story of a woman who helps a union leader sought by police in 1930s Greece. The film had 1,205,887 admissions in France. At the 2nd César Awards, Schneider was nominated for Best Actress and Jean Ravel was nominated for Best Editing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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