A literary masterpiece by Stefan Zweig—*The Impatience of the Heart*—was superbly adapted for film by the master of French cinema Édouard Molinaro. Yet even a very successful adaptation could not match the power and emotional intensity of the story of a hopeless, mad love: that of the paralyzed young beauty Edit von Kekeshfalva for the young Austrian officer Anton Hofmüller. He is able to feel compassion for her, understand her, pity her—yet cannot return her love…