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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Audiences don't see the outcome of the duel between Stefan and Johann but Stefan mentions his opponent to be an excellent shot so he has the odds against his favour]].
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* DeathByDespair: With [[spoiler: Stefan Jr's]] death, and Stefan being unable to recognize his love, Lisa doesn't have much to live for [[spoiler: and so it's implied that she dies this way.]]
* DownerEnding
* FlowerMotifs: Stefan, on his first date with Lisa, gets her one white rose which represents Lisa pure, unadulterated love. Once she finds Stefan again, she brings him a bundle of white roses so he can remember her, but alas, he doesn't.
* DownerEnding
* FlowerMotifs: Stefan, on his first date with Lisa, gets her one white rose which represents Lisa pure, unadulterated love. Once she finds Stefan again, she brings him a bundle of white roses so he can remember her, but alas, he doesn't.
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* DeathByDespair: With [[spoiler: Stefan Jr's]] death, and Stefan being unable to recognize his love, Lisa doesn't have much to live for [[spoiler: and so it's implied that she dies this way.way]].
* DownerEnding: Lisa and [[spoiler:Stefan Jr.]] are dead from typhus. [[spoiler:Stefan never returned Lisa's love for him while she was alive, and by the time he realises how much his brief time with her meant to him and especially to her, it's too late. Her grief-stricken husband, Johann, has challenged Stefan to a pistol duel and is said to be an excellent shot.]]
*DownerEnding
DuelToTheDeath: As the film opens, Stefan has been challenged to a pistol duel by a man who, according to Stefan's seconds, is an excellent shot (and, as the offended party in the duel, he will shoot first). By the end of the film, we learn that the other duellist is [[spoiler:Lisa's widowed husband, Johann, who knew of her love for Stefan and blames him for her death]].
* FlowerMotifs: Stefan, on his first date with Lisa, gets her one white rose which representsLisa Lisa's pure, unadulterated love. Once she finds Stefan again, she brings him a bundle of white roses so he can remember her, but alas, he doesn't.doesn't until after [[spoiler:she has already died]].
* DownerEnding: Lisa and [[spoiler:Stefan Jr.]] are dead from typhus. [[spoiler:Stefan never returned Lisa's love for him while she was alive, and by the time he realises how much his brief time with her meant to him and especially to her, it's too late. Her grief-stricken husband, Johann, has challenged Stefan to a pistol duel and is said to be an excellent shot.]]
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* LoveMartyr: Lisa, so very much.
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* LoveMartyr: Lisa, so very much.Lisa spends her adolescence pining for Stefan, who doesn't even know she exists. When they meet again as adults, they spend a romantic night together, but Stefan almost immediately forgets about her, while she ends up bearing his child. And when they meet for a third time nearly ten years later, Stefan ''still'' doesn't remember Lisa; any claims to the contrary are just part of his seduction routine. She leaves, heartbroken, [[spoiler:and dies of typhus within a few weeks]].
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** The "unknown woman" is unnamed in the book; in the film, she's called Lisa Berndle; a quirk of Ophüls is having his female characters names' starting with an L).
* OldRetainer: Stefan's servant has worked for him for years, and he knew all along that Lisa was the woman that had loved Stefan for so many years.
* StalkerWithACrush: Lisa doesn't have any problems with sneaking glances at Stefan's romantic encounters as he enters with them to the apartment building, and she sneaks into his house as well.
** Later, she waits outside his apartment, hoping he'll notice her. He eventually does.
* SourceMusic: Stefan plays ''Il Sospiro'' by Franz Liszt, and it's a song that follows him throughout the film.
* StarCrossedLovers: Stefan and Lisa.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Stefan
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Fernand, a relative of Lisa's mother and eventual husband, is turned into the completely unrelated "Mr. Kastner"
* OldRetainer: Stefan's servant has worked for him for years, and he knew all along that Lisa was the woman that had loved Stefan for so many years.
* StalkerWithACrush: Lisa doesn't have any problems with sneaking glances at Stefan's romantic encounters as he enters with them to the apartment building, and she sneaks into his house as well.
** Later, she waits outside his apartment, hoping he'll notice her. He eventually does.
* SourceMusic: Stefan plays ''Il Sospiro'' by Franz Liszt, and it's a song that follows him throughout the film.
* StarCrossedLovers: Stefan and Lisa.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Stefan
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Fernand, a relative of Lisa's mother and eventual husband, is turned into the completely unrelated "Mr. Kastner"
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** The "unknown woman" is unnamed in the book; in the film, she's called Lisa Berndle; a Berndle (a quirk of Ophüls is having his female characters names' starting with an L).
* OldRetainer: Stefan'sservant servant, John, has worked for him for years, and he knew all along that Lisa was the woman that had loved Stefan for so many years.
* StalkerWithACrush: Lisa doesn't have any problems with sneaking glances at Stefan's romantic encounters as he enters with them to the apartment building, and she sneaks into his house aswell.
**well. Later, she waits outside his apartment, hoping he'll notice her. He eventually does.
* SourceMusic: Stefan plays ''Il Sospiro'' by Franz Liszt, and it's asong piece that follows him throughout the film.
* StarCrossedLovers: Stefan andLisa.
Lisa's love is doomed from the start, partly by Stefan's inability to fully reciprocate Lisa's feelings and partly by circumstances keeping them apart for years at a time.
* TallDarkAndHandsome:Stefan
Stefan.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Fernand, a relative of Lisa's mother and eventual husband, is turned into the completely unrelated "Mr.Kastner"Kastner".
* OldRetainer: Stefan's
* StalkerWithACrush: Lisa doesn't have any problems with sneaking glances at Stefan's romantic encounters as he enters with them to the apartment building, and she sneaks into his house as
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* SourceMusic: Stefan plays ''Il Sospiro'' by Franz Liszt, and it's a
* StarCrossedLovers: Stefan and
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* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Fernand, a relative of Lisa's mother and eventual husband, is turned into the completely unrelated "Mr.
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* CanonForeigner: The character of Johann Stauffer had no literary counterpart.
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** In the 1922 novella the film's based on, the male protagonist in the book is simply referred to (once) as 'R', in the film he's given the name Stefan Brand (as a reference to the film's director Zweig, who also lends his name to the protagonist's infant son, also unnamed in the original source material).
** The "unknown woman" is unnamed in the book; in the film, she's called Lisa Berndle; a quirk of Ophüls is having his female characters names' starting with an L).
** In the 1922 novella the film's based on, the male protagonist in the book is simply referred to (once) as 'R', in the film he's given the name Stefan Brand (as a reference to the film's director Zweig, who also lends his name to the protagonist's infant son, also unnamed in the original source material).
** The "unknown woman" is unnamed in the book; in the film, she's called Lisa Berndle; a quirk of Ophüls is having his female characters names' starting with an L).
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* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Fernand, a relative of Lisa's mother and eventual husband, is turned into the completely unrelated "Mr. Kastner"
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Based on the 1922 novella of the same name, ''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' is a 1948 film directed by Creator/MaxOphuls, starring Creator/JoanFontaine and Louis Jourdan.Creator/LouisJourdan.
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Based on the 1922 novella of the same name, ''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' is a 1948 film directed by Max Ophuls, starring Creator/JoanFontaine and Louis Jourdan.
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Based on the 1922 novella of the same name, ''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' is a 1948 film directed by Max Ophuls, Creator/MaxOphuls, starring Creator/JoanFontaine and Louis Jourdan.
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Based on the 1922 novella of the same name, ''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' is a 1948 film directed by Max Ophuls, starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan.
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Based on the 1922 novella of the same name, ''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' is a 1948 film directed by Max Ophuls, starring Joan Fontaine Creator/JoanFontaine and Louis Jourdan.
