Watch The Story of Adele H. (1975) Free Online

Release Date: 1975

Cast: Reubin Dorey, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley, Bruce Robinson, Isabelle Adjani

Categories: Movies, Romantic Drama, World Cinema, Drama Film, Biopic [Feature], Romance Film, Period Piece

The Story of Adele H. (French: L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) is a 1975 French film which tells the story of the real-life Adèle Hugo, the daughter of writer Victor Hugo, whose obsessive unrequited love for a military officer led to her downfall. The film, told in French and English, is based on her diaries. It stars Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson and Sylvia Marriott. The film was adapted by Jean Gruault, Frances Vernor Guille, Suzanne Schiffman and François Truffaut, with English adaptation by Jan Dawson. It was directed by Truffaut. The film tells the story of beautiful Adèle Hugo, the... MORE

The Story of Adele H. (French: L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) is a 1975 French film which tells the story of the real-life Adèle Hugo, the daughter of writer Victor Hugo, whose obsessive unrequited love for a military officer led to her downfall. The film, told in French and English, is based on her diaries. It stars Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson and Sylvia Marriott. The film was adapted by Jean Gruault, Frances Vernor Guille, Suzanne Schiffman and François Truffaut, with English adaptation by Jan Dawson. It was directed by Truffaut. The film tells the story of beautiful Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of Victor Hugo, who is devastated by the accidental death of her elder sister Léopoldine Hugo. Hugo is living in exile on the island of Guernsey where Adèle meets and is seized by an obsessive and unrequited love for a British officer, Lieutenant Pinson (Robinson). She follows him to Halifax, Nova Scotia, under the assumed name of Miss Lewly. While in Halifax, he rejects her, but she communicates to her parents, via letter, that she has married him. Her father urges her to return home, but she destroys Pinson's hope of happiness by claiming to his actual fiancee's father, a judge, that LESS