Belle Du Seigneur - Trailer

English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen’s epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees. Belle du Seigneur is adapted from the celebrated French best seller by Albert Cohen (French Literature Academy Award 1968, and Nobel Prize nominated). It has been translated in numerous languages and continues to be the second best annual sale of its publisher Gallimard after “The Little Prince”. Belle du Seigneur is an unusual love affair, a moving study of events during a complicated relationship set against the backdrop of pre-war Geneva at the League of Nations . Its theme: a profound exploration of the questions of identity and power. The story focuses on Solal, a seductive and complexe assimilated Jew, Under Secretary General of the League of Nations and his attempt to find refuge from his inner demons in attempting to reach absolute love with Ariane, the beautiful and bright upper-class Protestant Genevan w