Starring Omar Sharif as Federico, Anouk Aimee as Carla
and Lotte Lenya
with Didi Perego, Fausto Tozzi, Luigi Proietti, Paola Barbara

Federico, a successful Italian lawyer, is enchanted by Carla, his friend's fiancee. The news that the engagement has been broken off after Carla kept an assignation with her fiance's cousin only serves to increase Federico's interest. At an apparently respectable antique shop he makes an appointment to meet her...
Sidney Lumet's haunting story of jealousy and suspicion - never released in Britain - holds the audience on a knife-edge of uncertainty throughout. Anouk Aimee is perfectly cast as the mysterious Carla, a hypnotically attractive, but deeply tormented, woman.