Torrents (1947)
Directed by Serge de Poligny

Film Synopsis

In the middle of the Sahara desert, a caravan comes across the insensible body of a young European woman.  When she regains consciousness, the woman identifies herself as Lena and recalls the events that led up to her present predicament.  She remembers how she met her future husband, Jan, a missionary doctor whom she accompanied to a village in North Africa shortly after their marriage.  They have a baby son, but he dies from a snake bite.  To take their minds off this tragedy, the couple return to Jan's ancestral home in the Savoie, where Jan encounters his first love, Sigrid.  The latter is still insanely in love with Jan and will do anything to win him back, even if it means killing his wife...