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Quartet

5.8(42)19811h 41m2

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
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Language
German
  • prison
  • theft
  • based on memoir or autobiography
  • couple
  • 1920s

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Behind the camera

Director

James Ivory

Produced in

France, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR25 Oct 1981
    • Theatrical (limited)Restored and remastered3 May 2019
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes20 May 1981
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical23 Jun 1986
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical1821 Jul 1983
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalR18+12 Nov 1988

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Quartet was released on 25 October 1981.

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    CinemaSerf

    5/23/2024

    6/10

    "Marya" (Isabelle Adjani) finds herself out on a limb when her husband "Stephane" (Anthony Higgins) is incarcerated for a year for some art fraud. Luckily (or not) she is taken pity on by "H.J." (Alan Bates) and his doting wife "Lois" (Maggie Smith). They invite her into their lives but quickly, she realises that he has a bit of a wandering eye and that though his wife is fully aware, she is too afraid of losing him …

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