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The Story of Adele H

Year:

1975

Duration:

96 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

François Truffaut

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 11 wins & 4 nominations

Details

Country: France

Release Date: 1975-10-08

Filming Locations: Channel Islands

Cast

Actor

Character

Isabelle Adjani

The Story of Adele H

Bruce Robinson

Lt Albert Pinson

Sylvia Marriott

Mrs. Saunders

Joseph Blatchley

Mr. Whistler

Ivry Gitlis

Hypnotist

Louise Bourdet

Victor Hugo's servant

Cecil De Sausmarez

Mr. Lenoir

Ruben Dorey

Mr. Saunders

Clive Gillingham

Keaton

Roger Martin

Doctor Murdock

M. White

Colonel White (as Mr White)

Madame Louise

Madame Baa

Jean-Pierre Leursse

Black penpusher

Geoffroy Crook

George, servant at Johnstone's (uncredited)

Chantal Durpoix

Young whore (uncredited)

Raymond Falla

Judge Johnstone (uncredited)

David Foote

David, a young boy (uncredited)

Jacques Frejabue

Cabinetmaker (uncredited)

Carl Hathwell

Lt. Pinson's Batman (uncredited)

Edward J. Jackson

O'Brien (uncredited)

Aurelia Mansion

Widow with dog (uncredited)

Thi-Loan Nguyen

Madmoiselle Tilly, assistant of hypnotist (uncredited)

François Truffaut

Officer (uncredited)

Ralph Williams

Canadian (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Initially planned as a grand-scale spectacular drama with Jeanne Moreau to play the lead, then Catherine Deneuve (then having an affair with François Truffaut) was considered for the role. The film took 7 years to be made, and finally Truffaut decided on Isabelle Adjani whom he noticed on a TV broadcast of the Comédie Française:

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The film is based on true facts.

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Gitlis (as the hypnotist) dismisses his Chinese assistant so he can discuss in private with Adele. He allegedly talks to her in Chinese, but actually tells her in Hebrew to get lost.

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Goofs

The hypnotist has a plant in the audience pretending to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which was not set up until a decade after the story's setting of 1863

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Quotes

Adèle Hugo: You are so handsome, Albert. You deserve to have all the women on Earth.

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Adèle Hugo: I'm your wife. Forever. We'll stay together until we die.

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Faq

What does the Gitlis say to his Chinese assistant (in Hebrew)?

(Perhaps not a Frequently Asked Question, but I thought someone might want to know)He yells at her: "Get out of here. I don't want to see you here again." ,mth npv/ tbh kt rumv krtu, tu,l pv hu,r/

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