"The Fear of an Unfaithful Woman" - Inge Duhan lives with her husband, the lawyer Erich Duhan, and her little daughter Susi in Berlin. Inge is a very attractive woman. She loves her husband and has always been faithful to him. On a holiday trip to the French Riviera Inge meet the charming painter Francard. A brief affair begins that turns into blackmail.
Acting
Elga Brink's face: desire, guilt, terror, no intertitle needed.
Cinematography
Riviera glamour vs. Berlin claustrophobia, all shadows and sunlight.
Director
Hans Steinhoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1928 'morality' tale arrived just before the Hays Code, when German cinema could still explore female desire without mandatory punishment — though it punished her anyway.
Director Hans Steinhoff later made Nazi propaganda films; here, his eye for glamorous suffering feels almost accidentally subversive.
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