King, Queen, Knave (1972)

Directors

Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast

David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf, Carl Duering, Sonia Hofmann, Barbara Valentin, Erica Beer, Felicitas Peters, Elma Karlowa, Christine Schuberth, Christopher Sandford, Mogens von Gadow

The story

Adopted by his rich Uncle Charles and taken to Germany on the death of his parents, the inept British teenager Frank is introduced to the free-wheeling 1970s European lifestyle and begins to fantasise about his uncle's glamorous Italian wife Martha. She seduces Frank and then tries to persuade him to kill her husband so that they can inherit his money. However, though the idea is to drown Charles from a rowing boat, they all fall into the water and she drowns by accident instead, leaving uncle and nephew to resume the friendly relations that she had disrupted.

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