Rebecca on ARTE: Hitchcock adapts Daphne du Maurier at Manderley Castle

How do you find your place in a house that still seems to belong to someone else? Rebecca, airing on ARTE on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 9 p.m., follows a young wife grappling with the memory of the woman who came before her. Alfred Hitchcock adapts Daphne du Maurier’s novel, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.

After meeting in Monte Carlo, a young woman and Maxim de Winter marry and move to the Manderley estate. There, the new Mrs. de Winter discovers just how much Rebecca, her husband’s first wife, remains present in the household’s routines. The housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, played by Judith Anderson, keeps her memory alive and undermines the young newcomer.

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Made in 1940, Rebecca was Hitchcock’s first American film, produced by David O. Selznick. The novel, the isolated estate and the relationships among its inhabitants provide the driving forces of this Gothic tale: the threat centers on a past the new wife knows nothing about. George Sanders rounds out the cast as Jack Favell.

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