Ernst Umhauer

A teacher pushes a student with extraordinary gifts to keep on writing -- even though he knows the young author's research methods are questionable.

Pietro Marcello follows his breakthrough "Martin Eden" with this enchanting period fable about a WWI veteran raising his daughter in rural France. Brought up in Normandy, Juliette dreams of life outside her village and finds romance along the way with a pilot (Louis Garrel) who falls from the sky. "Scarlet" weaves together music and folklore in a timeless story of a young woman’s emancipation.