

The Beautiful Prisoner
1983-02-16 · 88 min · ★ 6.1
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?
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- Directors
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Production companies
- Argos films, France•3
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
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Daniel MesguichWalter Raim
Gabrielle LazureMarie-Ange van de Reeves
Cyrielle ClairSara Zeitgeist
Daniel EmilforkInspector Francis
Roland DubillardProf van de Reeves
François ChaumetteDr. Morgentodt
Arielle DombasleThe hysterical woman
Gilles ArbonaLe barman
Jean-Claude LeguayLe cycliste
Michel AuclairLa voix de Walter (voice)Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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