A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.
Acting
Thulin's eyes alone deserved an Oscar nomination
Direction
Thompson turns a drawing room into a torture chamber
Writing
Chess as dialogue, every scene a gambit
Director
J. Lee Thompson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released only 20 years after liberation, one of the first thrillers to center a Jewish female survivor as protagonist rather than victim.
Talitha Pol, who plays Claudine, later became Talitha Getty—icon of '60s Marrakesh bohemia, died of overdose in 1971.
US
GB
