Pre-war Parisian espionage where your husband might be the enemy—awkward dinner conversation guaranteed.
A secret message is on a recording, a man who had disappeared for a while may be trying to steal it.His wife, a singer, teams up with a spy chief she has met to confront her husband.
Acting
Gitta Alpár's real opera background lends authenticity.
Production
Rare surviving glimpse of 1930s French studio craftsmanship.
Director
Richard Pottier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gitta Alpár was a Hungarian-Jewish opera star who fled Germany in 1933; this French film was part of her exile career.
The 'disappeared husband' trope here reflects genuine 1930s paranoia about foreign agents and ideological defectors in pre-WWII Europe.
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