Director: Max Ophüls

Writer: Howard Koch

From novel: Brief einer Unbekannten by Stefan Zweig

Musical Score: Daniele Amfitheatrof

Producer: John Houseman

Keywords: Romantic Drama

Rakish Viennese concert pianist Stefan Brand receives a letter confessing the unrequited love for him by Lisa Berndle, who as a teenager grew obsessed with him. Unknown to him, he is father of their child, fruit of their first meeting. At their second meeting, he did not remember her from their first! Merely taking the time to read this letter will have a tremendous effect on Brand's life. Romantic, haunting tale is perhaps Max Ophüls' best film; entered 1992 into the National Film Registry.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joan Fontaine	Actor	22-Oct-1917	15-Dec-2013	Suspicion
Howard Freeman	Actor	9-Dec-1899	11-Dec-1967	Theatre and character actor
Louis Jourdan	Actor	19-Jun-1919	14-Feb-2015	Kamal in Octopussy
Erskine Sanford	Actor	19-Nov-1885	7-Jul-1969	Citizen Kane

CAST

Joan Fontaine	...   Lisa Berndle
Louis Jourdan	...   Stefan Brand
With
Mady Christians	...   Frau Berndl
Marcel Journet	...   Johann Stauffer
Art Smith	...   John
Carol Yorke	...   Marie
Howard Freeman	...   Herr Kastner
John Good	...   Lt. Leopold von Kaltnegger
Leo B. Pessin	...   Stefan, Jr.
Erskine Sanford	...   Porter
Otto Waldis	...   Concierge
Sonja Bryden	...   Frau Spitzer

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