A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.
Acting
Von Stroheim's final performance—cruel, magnetic, utterly himself.
Production
The fortress set feels like a character slowly suffocating.
Director
Marcel Cravenne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was von Stroheim's final film role; he died in France in 1957, having essentially played himself—a fallen Hollywood emperor in European exile.
Strindberg's original play was banned in several countries for its vicious portrait of marriage; this 1948 adaptation keeps the venom fully intact.
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