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Overview
La Chartreuse de Parme is a French romantic film drama first released in 1948,
directed by Christian-Jaque.
The film is based on a novel by Stendhal and stars Gérard Philipe, Renée Faure, Lucien Coëdel and Louis Salou.
It has also been released under the title: Charterhouse at Parma.
Our overall rating for this film is: very good.
Synopsis
At the beginning of the 19th Century, the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo returns
to Parme, his home country, after having completed his studies in
Naples. There he receives a warm welcome from the Duchess
Sansévérina, the aunt who brought him up. It soon
becomes apparent to Fabrice that his aunt’s feelings for him are no
longer maternal but deeply amorous. Such is her love for
her nephew that Sansévérina abandons the Count Mosca and
spurns the advances of Prince Ernest, her most ardent admirer. In
a bid to win Sansévérina for himself, the Prince has
Fabrice arrested and thrown into jail for twenty years. In his
cell, Fabrice falls in love with the governor’s daughter...
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