A 1956 German melodrama where infidelity meets murder — and everyone's guilty of terrible decisions.
After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.
Acting
Lilli Palmer's controlled fury beneath velvet composure.
Production
Lavish sets that reek of bourgeois suffocation.
Director
Rolf Hansen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lilli Palmer and Curd Jürgens were married in real life during filming, lending their on-screen warfare uncomfortable authenticity.
This was West Germany's attempt at Hollywood-style 'women's pictures' — think Sirk, but with more Wagner and less subtlety.
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