Aloïse(1975)

movie - first aired/released 1975-04-02 - audience 6.2

Directed by Liliane de Kermadec

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.