Clarissa (1998)

  • NR
  • 07/01/1998 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 1h 44m

Overview

Vienna before the First World War: Clarissa Schuhmeister grows up in the monastery. Strict discipline determines her life until she meets the Frenchman Léonard and falls in love with him. Just when she expects a child from him, the First World War tears the happy couple apart. Out of pragmatism, Clarissa marries Gottfried, a deserter, with whom she makes a painful yet realistic agreement so that he will not be sent back to war. But she never feels love for him because she can not forget Léonard.

Jacques Deray

Director

Jean-Claude Carrière

Writer

Stefan Zweig

Novel

Cast

Maruschka Detmers's headshot

Maruschka Detmers

Clarissa Schuhmeister
Tobias Moretti's headshot

Tobias Moretti

Gottfried
Claude Rich's headshot

Claude Rich

Professor Silberstein
Stéphane Freiss's headshot

Stéphane Freiss

Leonard
Wolfgang Gasser's headshot

Wolfgang Gasser

Clarissas Vater
Elena Sofia Ricci's headshot

Elena Sofia Ricci

Marion
Fritz Karl's headshot

Fritz Karl

Huber
Dorothea Parton's headshot

Dorothea Parton

Madame Kutshera

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