The Cigarette
A dark, psychologically tense silent drama about jealousy and despair, where a man surrenders his fate to chance through an act of self-destruction.
A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
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