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Letter from an Unknown Woman : A Son

Lisa (Joan Fontaine) gives birth to a son whom she gives his father's name, Stefan (Louis Brand).

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dissolve, explanatory insert, flashback, lighting, long shot, long take, medium shot, mobile framing, narrator, over the shoulder shot, retrospective plot, set, two-shot, voice-off

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"A Son" in Letter from an Unknown Woman. Directed by Max Ophüls, Universal Pictures, 1948, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2010

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