The Beautiful Prisoner
Genres
Overview
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?
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
88 min
Release Date
1983-02-16
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
40
Vote Average
6.3
Daniel Mesguich
Walter Raim
Gabrielle Lazure
Marie-Ange van de Reeves
Cyrielle Clair
Sara Zeitgeist
Daniel Emilfork
Inspector Francis
Roland Dubillard
Prof van de Reeves
François Chaumette
Dr. Morgentodt
Arielle Dombasle
The hysterical woman
Gilles Arbona
Le barman
Jean-Claude Leguay
Le cycliste
Nancy van Slyke
La serveuse
Denis Fouqueray
Le valet
Michel Auclair
La voix de Walter (voice)
Roland Dubillard
Le prodesseur van de Reeves
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