In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.
Acting
Curd Jürgens simmers with guilty unease; Folco Lulli's grief is volcanic.
Direction
Cayatte stretches tension like taffy across endless desert highways.
Director
André Cayatte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during France's post-war reckoning with collaboration and accountability, the film's desert setting mirrors the moral no-man's-land of occupied France.
Cayatte shot the driving sequences with rear projection so static that the actors' performances had to carry every frame of inertia.
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