The Story of Adele H.

The Story of Adele H. French LHistoire dAdle H. is a 1975 French historical drama film directed by Franois Truffaut and starring Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, and Sylvia Marriott. Written by Truffaut, Jean Gruault, and Suzanne Schiffman, the film is about Adle Hugo, the daughter of writer Victor Hugo, whose obsessive unrequited love for a military officer leads to her downfall. The story is based on Adle Hugos diaries. It was filmed on location in Guernsey, Barbados, and Senegal.

In 1863, the American Civil War is still raging and Great Britain and France have yet to enter into the conflict. For the past year British troops have been stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, carefully checking European passengers disembarking from foreign ships. The beautiful Adle Hugo Isabelle Adjani, the second daughter of Victor Hugo, makes it through and takes a carriage into Halifax. Traveling under the assumed name of Miss Lewly, Adle finds accommodations at a boarding house run by Mr. and Mrs. Saunders.Adle finds a notary and inquires about a British officer, Lieutenant Pinson Bruce Robinson, with whom shes had a relationship. Later that day Adle sees Pinson at a book shop. When she learns that Mr. Saunders will be attending a military dinner which Pinson is likely to attend, Adle asks him to deliver a letter from hera love letter announcing her arrival. While showing some old photographs to Mrs. Saunders, she talks about her older sister Lopoldine Hugo, who died in a drowning accident at the age of nineteen many years ago just after being married. When Mr. Saunders returns from the dinner, he tells her that he gave Pinson her letter but he did not reply. That night Adle has nightmares about drowning. ........

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