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Clarissa

Clarissa

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 1, 1998

Runtime

1h 44m

Genres

Drama

User Score

49%

Original Title

Clarissa

Director

Jacques Deray

Description

Vienna before the First World War: Clarissa Schuhmeister grows up in the monastery. Strict discipline determines her life until she meets the Frenchman Léonard and falls in love with him. Just when she expects a child from him, the First World War tears the happy couple apart. Out of pragmatism, Clarissa marries Gottfried, a deserter, with whom she makes a painful yet realistic agreement so that he will not be sent back to war. But she never feels love for him because she can not forget Léonard.