The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

• DirectorLiliane de Kermadec
• Release2 April 1975
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration1h 55m
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  5.6
  5 reviews
• Productions

  Unité Trois