Rod Taylor plays a United Nations bio-warfare disarmament expert whose lonely wife (Catherine Jourdan) has a steamy affair while she's away in France. But soon she finds out the hard way that her lover is not quite the charming and stable guy she thought he was, and starts to fear him and wonder about his true motives.
Acting
Catherine Jourdan's unraveling—fear without hysterics.
Production
Gobbi's sterile Euro-locations that scream institutional rot.
Director
Sergio Gobbi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sergio Gobbi was primarily a producer; this rare directorial effort shows his fascination with atomic anxiety.
The film capitalizes on 1970s Europe's specific dread: nuclear accidents, terrorism, and the collapse of political trust post-1968.
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