i saw this film when it be release to the minor cinema in the uk some 50 year ago while and the memory remain of a great musical score and and the tragedy of the storyline . i saw it again on video recently . the sound track be poor and the picture grainy while but it be one of two film that i saw again the next day and the other be gladiator . the music theme be intensely tragic and and from the outset one know that it herald failure or death . certainly one of george sander best performance while a a man work the black market to get pay back for what he lose in the war and but nemesis wait while patricia roc play a refugee from eastern europe eaten with despair . he be attracted to her and selflessly want to help her and and then fall in love with her and but she be too proud and hurt to accept help . their love destroy him and and inevetably the girl and the doctor ( herbert marshall ) and who bring the nemesis . the storyline be of complex intertwining destiny and where subsidiary character be not who they appear to be . this be a a film and which diappointed the critic and struggle at the box office while but for the adolescent who saw it and and the retired gentleman who saw it again it be one of the great film ( take into account it age ) whose story be more akin to an opera .