]After his phenomenal success withThe Godfather (1972), Coppola's technically-brilliant, absorbing film was a critically-acclaimed work, but it failed at the box-office.Freder first speaks to his father's assistant Josaphat (Theodor Loos) about his witnessing of the machine explosion, intent on telling his engrossed father about it.After seducing (and betraying) her loving husband, she begins to feel perilous menace fromboththe man she really loves - an icy, seemingly insensitive and cruel American intelligence agent (Cary Grant) on the assignment - and her husband (Claude Rains), a man who is fixated with and controlled by his overcritical, partly-jealous mother figure (Leopoldine Konstantin).After a long period of a debilitating pregnancy, she consulted with a long-time friend who died mysteriously, but had sent her a book about witchcraft - with suggestions that their Castevet neighbor Roman was the son of a famous martyred witch (warlock).They are trained by drill sergeant Himmelstoss, the ex-village postmaster who has become a disliked, sadistically brutal commander.