A servant vanishes. A colonial sin festers. Who's really trapped here?
A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing.
Cinematography
Sweat-drenched colonial interiors that suffocate.
Acting
Mireille Balin's nervous glamour curdles gorgeously.
Direction
Gourguet builds dread from what characters don't say.
Director
Jean Gourguet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Occupation France with limited resources — the colonial 'elsewhere' let filmmakers escape censorship metaphorically.
Sessue Hayakawa, Hollywood's first Asian star, spent WWII making films in France after being trapped there.
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