哥本哈根的深夜街頭,一宗宗詭異的謀殺案讓市民人心惶惶,根據證人表示,每次謀殺案發生之前,總會聽到奇妙優美的詠歎調歌聲,警方也因此鎖定女歌手為主要嫌犯,直到女伶的魔術師前夫突然出現,一切才開始水落石出…。丹麥首部結合黑色電影與驚悚類型的影片,1944年問世時,掀起了一陣懸疑旋風,《看誰在尖叫》丹麥導演歐波奈戴爾更宣稱受本片影響極深。
A murderer has night-time Copenhagen in his– or is it her – thrall. Each time a strangled victim is found, witnesses describe hearing a strangely high-pitched voice singing a French chanson. Cabaret artist Odette...
A young teacher, Eva Nygaard (Astrid Villaume), arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiance, the Doctor Erik Halse, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship...