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The Beautiful Prisoner
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The Beautiful Prisoner

1983-02-16 · 88 min · ★ 6.1

Drama · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?

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Directors
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Production companies
Argos films, France•3
Countries
France
Status
Released

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Daniel MesguichDaniel MesguichWalter Raim
Gabrielle LazureGabrielle LazureMarie-Ange van de Reeves
Cyrielle ClairCyrielle ClairSara Zeitgeist
Daniel EmilforkDaniel EmilforkInspector Francis
Roland DubillardRoland DubillardProf van de Reeves
François ChaumetteFrançois ChaumetteDr. Morgentodt
Arielle DombasleArielle DombasleThe hysterical woman
Gilles ArbonaGilles ArbonaLe barman
Jean-Claude LeguayJean-Claude LeguayLe cycliste
Nancy van SlykeLa serveuse
Denis FouquerayLe valet
Michel AuclairMichel AuclairLa voix de Walter (voice)

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