The Visit

Karla Zachanassian was driven out of this town as a girl. She was pregnant by Serge Miller and he refused to marry her. Years later she comes back as one of the richest women in the world. The town is bankrupt and rolls out the red carpet. Karla says she will give them the money and wants one thing in return: the death of Serge Miller. The town is horrified at first. Then people start buying on credit and wearing new shoes. Bernhard Wicki directs; a hundred minutes, with Ingrid Bergman as Karla and Anthony Quinn as Serge, adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play. In the play the town kills the man; in the film it does not. Dürrenmatt said he was not happy with the change.