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Set in 1799 while the Russian General Souvarof is invading Italy, Eric Rohmer’s The Marquis of O centres around the beautiful, young widow of the title (played by Edith Clever). Left alone as her father commands a zone in the thick of battle against the Russians, she is captured and violated by Count F (Bruno Ganz), a Russian lieutenant who she mistakenly believes to be her saviour. Unconscious at the time of her attack, she has no recollection of events and only when she begins to experience strange feelings and sensations does she realises she that could be carrying his child…

With: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel