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...Stranger Knocks at the door of a young widow living in isolation in a seaside cottage. It is raining and he says he is lost, and she lets him stay for the night. In the morning, each feels a reluctance to separate, she because she is lonely and he because he is being pursued by police...
...days that follow, they lead an idyllic existence. She sheds her mourning for her husband who was tortured to death as a resistance worker in World War II, and falls in love with the stranger; and he returns her love with at least some genuineness...
...Stranger Knocks is acted intensely by Birgitte Federspiel and Preben Lerdorff Rye. The complete isolation of the two characters magnifies the tension of the developing revelation of their relationship. The film is flawed only by a few trite lines and some occasionally self-conscious camera work...
...LOWER DEPTHS. In a crude beam-and-burlap basement, a group of humanity's dregs inhabit a no-exit hell of thoughtlessness, meanness and cruelty for each other, until a stranger for a while tries to set their lives in motion again and soothes them with the balm of understanding...
Gerhard's affinity for Camus first led him to consider writing an opera based on the late French author's bleak first novel, The Stranger, and he still plans to do the work-if he can win a commis sion. But while lying ill two years ago, the musical approach to the message of The Plague struck him. "It is man's bestiality to man, and the pestilence is the fight against terror." That message, he says, "took my imagination by storm...