Letter From an Unknown Woman

""By the time you read this I may be dead.""

Based on the 1922 novella of the same name, Letter from an Unknown Woman is a 1948 film directed by Max Ophuls. Pianist Stefan Brand comes home one night a few hours from a duel in which he has no interest in participating. Before he prepares to leave the city, he receives a letter that begins with the above quote.

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 * Tear Jerker