This is actually a great thriller, if you can follow all the turbulent quick turns and violent happenings in this intricate web of complications for a poor immigrant taxi driver who works without a licence and on New Year's Eve instead of an American passenger finds a dead corpse in his backseat. This leads to complications. He finds a great opportunity for himself in the situation, since he can simply get away out of the country by stealing the dead man's passport and identity, which doesn't prove too easy, however, since the dead man had a mistress waiting for him at the hotel, they were eloping together, but when she finds the taxi driver with her lover's identity she reacts of course, which leads to further complications. The mess leads into a labyrinth of with no end of troubles, and finally the lady's jealous husband, a famous concert pianist, catches up with them, which leads to further complications, as the jealous husband naturally acts like a fool.
As could be expected, the music is excellent throughout the whole film, you will be able to enjoy the best parts of Schumann's piano concerto, and that's just a sample of this whole symphonic film. The photo is dark and directly associating to Robert Krasker's famous photo in Carol Reed's "The Third Man", but you see nothing here of the political situation - just a few ruins. It is fast action all the way, so you had better fasten your seatbelts.