Fear
1954 · Movie · 83 min · ★ 6.4 · 44% critics
A married woman tries to hide an affair and hold together the image of a perfect family life, but guilt and anxiety quickly spiral. When someone from the past starts blackmailing her, private shame turns into a tense, increasingly desperate ordeal.
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Details
- Original title
- La Paura
- Years
- 1954
- Release date
- 1954-11-05
- Language
- Italian
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Critic score
- 44/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (65 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy compact, old-school psychological melodramas with mounting anxiety and moral pressure, especially if Stromboli appealed to you; Not for you if you want big surprises, high action, or a powerful ending.
Pros: tense premise; strong lead performance; brisk pacing | Cons: simple story; low suspense; weak ending
Themes
- jealousy
- husband wife relationship
- wife
- germany
- boss
- confession
- blackmail
- lover
- telephone
- money
- laboratory
- fear
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Cast & crew
Ingrid Bergman
as Irene Wagner
Mathias Wieman
as Professor Albert Wagner
Renate Mannhardt
as Luisa Vidor aka Johanna Schultze
Kurt Kreuger
as Erich Baumann
- EA
Elise Aulinger
as Martha, Wagners' Housekeeper
Edith Schultze-Westrum
as Wagners' Babysitter
Steffi Stroux
as Luisa Vidor's Friend
- AW
Annelore Wied
- RD
Rolf Deininger
as (uncredited)
- AH
Albert Herz
as (uncredited)
Directed by Roberto Rossellini