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Produced by
  
Denise Robert

Initial release
  
August 1991

Music director
  
Jean Corriveau

6.7/10
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Directed by
  
Léa Pool

Music by
  
Jean Corriveau

Director
  
Léa Pool

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Written by
  
Léa Pool Michel Langlois Laurent Gagliardi

Based on
  
"La Demoiselle sauvage" by S. Corinna Bille

Starring
  
Patricia Tulasne Matthias Habich

Screenplay
  
Léa Pool, Michel Langlois, Laurent Gagliardi

Awards
  
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score

Cast
  
Matthias Habich, Patricia Tulasne, Michel Voïta, Roger Jendly, Séverine Bujard

Similar
  
A Woman in Transit, Poverty and Other Delights, The Passion Of Augustine, Vic and Flo Saw a Bear, The Woman Who Drinks

The Savage Woman (French: La Demoiselle sauvage) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, released in 1991. Directed by Léa Pool, the film stars Patricia Tulasne as Marianne, a young Canadian expatriate in Switzerland who escapes into the mountains after being assaulted by her boyfriend, and meets Élysée (Matthias Habich), an engineer camped out for the summer to monitor a hydroelectric dam, with whom she begins a new romance before eventually revealing that she killed her attacker.

The film was based on a short story by Swiss writer S. Corinna Bille.

The film premiered in August 1991 at the Montreal World Film Festival. It won the award for Best Canadian Film at that festival.

Awards

The film garnered three Genie Award nominations at the 12th Genie Awards:

  • Best Actor: Matthias Habich
  • Best Adapted Screenplay: Léa Pool, Michel Langlois and Laurent Gagliardi
  • Best Original Score: Jean Corriveau
  • Corriveau won the award for Best Original Score.

    References

    The Savage Woman Wikipedia