The Savage Woman

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  • Genre(s):Drama
  • Release year: 1991
  • Running time: 105 min
The Savage Woman (French: La Demoiselle sauvage) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, released in 1991. Directed by Léa Pool, the film stars Patricia Tulasne as Marianne, a young Canadian expatriate in Switzerland who escapes into the mountains after...read more

The Savage Woman (French: La Demoiselle sauvage) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, released in 1991. Directed by Léa Pool, the film stars Patricia Tulasne as Marianne, a young Canadian expatriate in Switzerland who escapes into the mountains after being assaulted by her boyfriend, and meets Élysée (Matthias Habich), an engineer camped out for the summer to monitor a hydroelectric dam, with whom she begins a new romance before eventually revealing that she killed her attacker. The film was based on a short story by Swiss writer S. Corinna Bille. The film premiered in August 1991 at the Montreal World Film Festival. It won the award for Best Canadian Film at that festival.

Original Release

01/01/1991

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)

Directors

Lea Pool

Writers

Lea Pool, S. Corinna Bille, Laurent Gagliardi, Michel Langlois

Cast

Producers

Editors

Alain Belhumeur

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