A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.
Acting
Gusti Huber's desperate suspicion against Breuer's oily charm.
Direction
Rabenalt crams shadowy dread into tight bourgeois interiors.
Director
Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1945 Vienna, literally among the rubble — the bombed-out streets you see weren't sets. This was one of the first German-language productions after the fall, made when the country itself felt like a crime scene.
Rabenalt was a controversial figure who continued directing through the Nazi era; this post-war noir can be read as his attempt at moral rehabilitation, with Manders as a stand-in for complicit bourgeoisie who thought they could marry into innocence.
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