A Woman at Her Window

A Woman at Her Window
A Woman at Her Window
Directed by	Pierre Granier-Deferre
Screenplay by	Jorge Semprún; Pierre Granier-Deferre
Based on	Hotel Acropolis by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Produced by	Albina du Boisrouvray; Hans Pflüger
Starring	Romy Schneider; Philippe Noiret; Victor Lanoux; Umberto Orsini
Cinematography	Aldo Tonti
Edited by	Jean Ravel
Music by	Carlo Rustichelli
Release date	10 November 1976;
Running time	110 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$9 million

A Woman at Her Window (French: Une femme à sa fenêtre) is a 1976 French drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, starring Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux and Umberto Orsini. Based on the 1929 novel Hotel Acropolis by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, it tells the story of a woman who helps a union leader sought by police in 1930s Greece.

The film had 1,205,887 admissions in France.^[2] At the 2nd César Awards, Schneider was nominated for Best Actress and Jean Ravel was nominated for Best Editing.^[3]

Plot

In Greece in 1936, Rico and Margot are married in name only. He pursues other women while she, rich and beautiful, has many suitors, the most bearable being Raoul. Outwardly frivolous, what she wants is not an extramarital affair but a grand passion. One hot night in August she sees from her window a man pursued by the police and on an impulse lets him hide in her bedroom. He is Michel, an anti-regime militant whose courage, idealism, and humanity overwhelm her. To hide him from the police, she gets him hired as chauffeur to Raoul and the two then disappear together. Rico and Raoul try to find her, but in vain. In 1967 a young woman visits Greece, trying to find traces of her parents: Margot and Michel.