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  1. Story of Women (French: Une affaire de femmes) is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined on 30 July 1943 for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area, and the 1986 book Une affaire de femmes by Francis Szpiner.

  2. Story of Women: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier. A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.

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    • Drama, History, Romance
    • Claude Chabrol
    • 1990-02
  3. Story of Women is a dramatization of unique circumstances, portraying an illicit abortionist in Nazi-occupied France whose actions the films portray variously as a result of practicality, a ...

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    • Isabelle Huppert
    • Claude Chabrol
    • Drama
  4. Feb 14, 1990 · The movie begins in 1941, in wartime France. Huppert plays Marie, a poor woman with a drunken nobody of a husband. The lives of herself and her two small children are wretched. One day she barges into a neighbor's apartment and finds the woman trying to perform an abortion on herself.

  5. Une affaire de femmes (Story of Women) tells the story of Marie Latour (Huppert), a French housewife living in poverty during World War 2 with her two young children while her husband Paul (François Cluzet) is a POW in Germany.

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    • Claude Chabrol
  6. Feb 15, 2017 · In Story of Women, the society is identified more specifically – Occupied France during World War II, where a housewife becomes an abortionist while her husband is interned in a German POW camp. Chabrol provocatively casts his analysis of the period in gendered terms.

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  8. Story of Women. Isabelle Huppert won the Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival for her riveting performance in this tale of wartime survival based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, one of the last women to be executed by guillotine in France.

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