A gypsy's revenge masquerades as seduction — and the music will haunt you.
The guardian is engaged to a girl from a good family, but the intervention of a gypsy will make his heart lean. This one comes in fact to take revenge and will try to kill him.
Acting
Tino Rossi's tortured eyes say everything the script doesn't.
Score
The gypsy songs are actual earworms from hell — magnificent.
Director
Jean de Marguenat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tino Rossi was Corsica's biggest music star; this film capitalized on his singing career during the post-war French appetite for escapist melodrama.
Director Jean de Marguenat largely worked in obscurity; this remains one of his few surviving features, preserved by chance rather than reputation.
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