The Letter (1999 film)
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The Letter (Template:Lang-fr, Template:Lang-pt) is a 1999 French-Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It tells the story of a married woman who has feelings for another man, and who confesses her feelings to her friend, a cloistered nun. The film is loosely based on the 1678 French novel The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette.
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Cast
- Chiara Mastroianni as Mme de Clèves
- Pedro Abrunhosa as Pedro Abrunhosa
- Antoine Chappey as M. de Clèves
- Leonor Silveira as La religieuse
- Françoise Fabian as Mme de Chartres
- Maria João Pires as Maria João Pires
- Anny Romand as Mme de Silva
- Luís Miguel Cintra as M. Da Silva
- Stanislas Merhar as François de Guise
- Claude Lévèque as Le médecin de Mme de Chartres
- Ricardo Trêpa as Intrus
- Alain Guillo as Le directeur de Jouillerie
- Jean-Loup Wolff as Le médecin de l'hôpital
- Alexandre Nanaia
- Marcel Terroux as Le Jardinier
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