Christine

Year: 1958

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: French

Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit

RomanceDrama

Set in Vienna in 1906, Franz Lobheiner falls passionately for the young Christine while still involved with the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. When the baron discovers his wife's infidelity, he challenges Lobheiner to a duel, though the rivalry has lost its urgency as Franz’s heart now belongs solely to Christine. The tangled emotions of this love quartet drive the story toward an uncertain resolution.

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Plays and Stories: Arthur Schnitzler: The book behind Christine

Flirtations Joins Four Viennese Works about Desire, Class, Performance, Honor, and the Damage Hidden beneath Cultivated Manners · by Arthur Schnitzler, Egon Schwarz, Arthur S. Wensinger, Clinton J. Atkinson

Why this book?

Pierre Gaspard-Huit's French-language film directly adapts Schnitzler's Liebelei, presented as Flirtations in this English anthology. Christine, daughter of a musician, falls sincerely in love with Fritz, who remains entangled with a married baroness; the offended husband demands a duel, and class conventions determine what Christine is told and allowed to mourn. The screen version expands Vienna into location and spectacle, heightens romance, and adjusts supporting incidents, but preserves the play's central asymmetry: Fritz treats Christine as respite, while she stakes a future on an attachment his social world considers temporary.

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