帕拉丁夫人（阿莉达·瓦莉 Alida Valli 饰）被控告杀害了自己的丈夫，她找来了名叫安东尼（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）的知名律师为自己辩护。随着交往的深入，安东尼发现自己竟然渐渐地爱上了美艳的帕拉丁夫人，然而安东尼已经娶了单纯善良的妻子盖伊（安·托德 Ann Todd 饰），每每想到妻子的脸庞，安东尼的心里就感到格外内疚。 然而，对于帕拉丁夫人的迷恋战胜了安东尼的内疚感，一次偶然中，安东尼发现帕拉丁夫人身旁的仆人安德鲁（路易斯·乔丹 Louis Jourdan 饰）最有嫌疑，尽管并没有安德鲁就是凶手的确凿证据，但嫁祸于安德鲁的确是能够让帕拉丁夫人脱罪的最好方式。
Captures three occurrences in a young girl's life that leave her with a heavy heart.
The true story is of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until Stalin's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero, squirrel, maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.
