Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme (1968)
Directed by Dominique Delouche

Film Synopsis

On the Orient-Express to Paris, an attractive woman in her forties recounts the sad events that have recently marked her life.  Her story begins in 1917.  Alice Scotland, the widow of an English Lord, is staying at a palace on the banks of Lake Lugano, in the company of her relatives.  One evening, Alice meets a young gambler at the casino.  Having prevented the young man from killing himself after losing all that he has, Alice befriends him.  He reveals that he is a deserter from the Austrian army who has just gambled away some money he stole from his family.  As a violent rainstorm breaks, Alice and the young man take refuge in a small hotel.  Later, she is torn between breaking off her contact with the stranger and eloping with him to Zurich...