Fedora is a 1978 American drama film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on a novella by Tom Tryon included in his collection Crowned Heads, published in 1976. The film's central character is a reclusive foreign-born actress, one of the greatest movie stars of the century, who inexplicibly has retained her youthful beauty despite her advancing years. In the opening scene she commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a train, and among the mourners at her funeral is aging has-been Hollywood producer Barry "Dutch" Detweiler, with whom she once... had a brief affair and who serves as the film's narrator. We flashback to a villa on an island near Corfu, where Dutch had visited Fedora two weeks earlier, determined to convince her to star in a new screen adaptation of Anna Karenina. She had told him she was a prisoner in her remote retreat, held captive by aged Polish Countess Sobryanski, her overprotective servant Miss Balfour, her chauffeur Kritos, and Dr. Vando, who seemingly was responsible for keeping the one-time star looking so young. When he had tried to respond to Fedora's plea for help, Dutch had been knocked unconscious by Kritos.
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| Release date: | June 29, 1978 |
| Directed by: | Billy Wilder |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 114 Minutes |
| Editor: | Fredric Steinkamp |
| Music by: | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography: | Gerry Fisher |
| Screenplay by: | Tom Tryon |
| Estimated budget: | $6,727,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |