Werner (Michel Piccoli) and Julia (Romy Schneider), are a middle-class French-speaking couple who live in Berlin. Unable to conceive, Julia confesses to her husband that she gave up a child to a working class Polish couple when she was a teenager. Having articulated this for the first time, the child, now six years old, becomes an obsession, and she begins to stalk him. For a film scripted by Marguerite Duras, La Voleuse is fairly conventional, but its subject resonates with many themes and motifs that she revisited throughout her literary and cinematic work: the abandoned child; belated, compulsive grief; class divisions…

"Jean Chapot offered me the role of Julia. As soon as I read the synopsis, my mind was made up: it was a dream role, offering the possibility of expressing the full range of feelings experienced by a young woman, from grief to exacerbated passion to resignation. I would be able to be sweet and tender, but also to scream and rage like someone possessed.” (Romy Schneider)

This screening will be the UK premiere of the 4K restoration.