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A Survivor's Tale (2026)
Directed by Micha Wald
“The fate of a woman forgotten by history”
Drama, History · 1h 42m
1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.
Cast
Salomé Dewaels
Louis Peres
Candice Bouchet
Alexandra Lamy
Patrick Descamps
Alexandre Gavras
Eddy Frogeais
Corentin Lobet
Crew
- Director
- Micha Wald
- Screenplay
- Agnès Caffin, Samuel Malhoure, Micha Wald
- Director of Photography
- Joachim Philippe
- Original Music Composer
- Elie Rabinovitch
- Editor
- Alain Dessauvage
- Producer
- Anton Iffland Stettner, Eva Kuperman, Eurydice Gysel
Details
- Original title
- L'île de la demoiselle
- Release date
- 2026-03-25
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Belgium, France
- Production
- Stenola Productions, KG Productions