Your dead rival just walked into your wife's hotel. Awkward.
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Trent were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Trent is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Trent being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Trent.
Acting
Pierre Renoir's dual performance as coward and possible ghost.
Cinematography
Fog-drenched Flanders battlefields that bleed into present-day.
Direction
Heymann's theatrical staging of psychological dread.
Director
Claude Heymann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pierre Renoir was Jean Renoir's brother and son of the painter Auguste; this was one of his rare leading roles.
Made during France's 'war nostalgia' cycle of the 1930s, processing trauma before the next war arrived.
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