The Letter (1999 film)

The Letter
Directed byManoel de Oliveira
Written byManoel de Oliveira
Based onThe Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
StarringChiara Mastroianni
Pedro Abrunhosa
Leonor Silveira
Antoine Chappey
CinematographyEmmanuel Machuel
Edited byValérie Loiseleux
Release dates
  • 21 May 1999 (1999-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 22 September 1999 (1999-09-22) (France)
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesFrance
Portugal
LanguagesFrench
Portuguese
Box office$766,920

The Letter (French: La Lettre, Portuguese: A Carta) is a 1999 French-Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It tells the story of a married woman who has feelings for another man, and who confesses her feelings to her friend, a cloistered nun. The Film is loosely based on the 1678 French novel The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette.

The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.

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