L'oeil du malin: In this French drama, a struggling writer is taken in by a successful author and his wife who allow him to use their Bavarian chateau so he can write his stories about Germany. The young writer is a bitter man, jealous of the couple’s happiness. He decides he will destroy it, so when the older writer goes off on a business trip, the young man tries to seduce his wife. She rejects him. The conniving young man then learns that she has a lover. He ends up taking a picture of the couple illicitly holding hands. The older man returns and the younger one confronts him with the damning photos.

Starring:

Andre Badin, Claude Chabrol, Daniel Boulanger, Jacques Charrier, Jean Davis, Michael Münzer, Stephane Audran, Walter Reyer

Genre:

Drama