HOUSE BY THE RIVER

A film by Fritz Lang

1950 / drama / 85’ / Black & White / status : completed / long feature-film

A wealthy, deranged writer accidentally murders a maid after she resists his advances. He ropes his brother into helping him hide the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect…

Press

“A jewel of expressionism and nocturnal poetry, infused by desire […] full of inventive scenes, striking shots, sexual and psychanalytic symbols that impregnate the movie with permanent morbid eroticism.”

Les Inrockuptibles