The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
Delphine Seyrig
as Aloïse (adulte)
Marc Eyraud
as le père d'Aloïse
Michael Lonsdale
as le médecin
Isabelle Huppert
as Aloïse (jeune)
Jacques Weber
as L'ingénieur
Julien Guiomar
as Le directeur du théâtre
Dominique Marcas
as
Roger Blin
as Le professeur de chant
Gilette Barbier
as
Caroline Huppert
as La soeur d'Aloïse
Jacques Debary
as L'ancien directeur
Fernand Guiot
as Le pasteur de l'asile
