The Savage Woman (French: La Demoiselle sauvage) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, released in 1991.
[1] 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[2] before eventually revealing that she killed her attacker.
[3] The film was based on a short story by Swiss writer S. Corinna Bille.
[4] It won the award for Best Canadian Film at that festival.
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