THE SCARLET LETTER

Directed by Wim Wenders

Synopsis

Puritan America in the 17th century: A small village on the East Coast surrounded by nothing but wilderness. A woman, Hester Prynne (Senta Berger), is pilloried because she is bearing an illegitimate child and refuses to reveal the father’s (Lou Castel) name. As a punishment, she is forced to wear a scarlet “A” (for “adulteress”) on her chest. Her pride and her love let her endure the contempt of the puritan townspeople. She raises her daughter (for ther first time: Yella Rottländer) on her own.

Cast

Senta Berger, Lou Castel, Hans-Christian Blech

Crew

Production – Produktion 1 in Filmverlag der Autoren (Munich)
Director – Wim Wenders
Producers – Thomas Schamoni, Wim Wenders
Screenplay – Wim Wenders, Bernardo Fernandez, based on the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the scenario Der Herr klagt über sein Volk in der Wildnis Amerika by Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler
Director of Photography – Robby Müller
Editor – Peter Przygodda
Sound – Christian Schubert