Fear (1954) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1954 · 83 mins · Italian

#1,771

Directed by

Roberto Rossellini

Starring

Ingrid Bergman, Klaus Kinski, Kurt Kreuger, Renate Mannhardt, Mathias Wieman, Edith Schultze-Westrum

Irene Wagner, married to renowned German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, is secretly involved with Erich Baumann. She hides the affair to protect her husband’s innocence and their seemingly perfect marriage, but the deception torments her with anxiety and guilt. When Johanna Schultze, Erich’s jealous former girlfriend, discovers the liaison, she begins to blackmail Irene, forcing her psychological anguish into a brutal, inescapable reality.