This rarely screened Swedish production, an adaptation of the play Attentat by W.O. Somin, was categorically disowned by its director, Carl Dreyer, who insisted that the casting made it impossible for him to do anything of value with the story. It depicts a single day in the life of the Swedish doctor Arne Lidell (Georg Rydeberg) and his wife Marianne (Wanda Rothgardt). Their relationship is threatened by a murder: the death of a man who was blackmailing Marianne over a past sexual affair, and demanding she inform him of the results of her husband's work. Her complicity ruins Dr. Lidell's work, and at the end of the film she dies, cradling him in her arms. 44/78