A Danish hotel where everyone's lying and someone brought the Tsar's secrets? Check your locks.
During World War I, the engineer Torben returns home with secret papers from the Russian Tsar to the courier Tuschin, Torben's best friend. Tuschin is found murdered, however, and to solve the murder, Torben stays at his hotel. Here he meets several mysterious people, not least the breathtaking stenographer Inge. But in the hotel, no one is who they pretend to be.
Direction
Christensen's final film, tightening screws with surgical precision.
Production
Claustrophobic hotel corridors that breathe suspicion.
Director
Benjamin Christensen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Nazi occupation of Denmark, this WWI-set thriller's paranoia about hidden loyalties carried dangerous contemporary weight for 1942 audiences.
Benjamin Christensen, director of the legendary silent horror 'Häxan,' ended his career with this little-seen noir — a quiet farewell from a wild visionary.
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