After a swimming accident in which her mother died and she herself nearly drowned, Gilda's mental development stopped at the level of a nine-year-old child.

I saw this obscure German film in Toronto in 1956, my first exposure to Oskar Werner. A "sleeper" of a movie for me, but so long ago and it seems never to be seen again. The topic has been treated many times but never, I think, to such effect. The last days in the bunker are entirely through the wondering subjective eyes of Werner, as Captain Wuest, a rather unimportant guardsman. Hitler and his henchmen are always kept at a distance, the way Wuest views them from his station, and what stands out in my memory is the finale of a drunken champagne party as though in celebration of something, but in reality as their means to forget the impending doom looming ahead as the Russians can be heard closing in. The problem with films portraying famous or infamous people is that they are almost always unbelievable because we are unwilling to suspend our disbelief, aware that they are actors up there trying to imitate the unknowable. Here, at least for the English speaking audience, the problem does not arise, we understand only through subtitles, and we hear the characters speaking in their own language. And, thank God, it is in black and white. The impact of the film stays with me still, and of course, Werner was a major revelation.

故事发生在17世纪的西班牙，战争的铁蹄踏破了这个美丽国家的宁静，人民们生活在水生火热之中。落魄贵族唐璜（汉斯·范·柏尔松迪 Hans von Borsody 饰）带着他的仆人斯卡纳尔四处流浪。唐璜是一个全身都散发着致命魅力的男人，他曾答应迎娶美丽的艾尔维尔（Lisa della Casa 饰），但最终他背信了契约，抛弃了艾尔维尔。 之后，在一个小小的渔村中，马瑟琳（Walter Berry 饰）和夏洛特都深深的被唐璜所吸引，为了抢夺他而大打出手。在被女人热爱的同时，唐璜自然而然也遭到了男人们的痛恨。