The White Slave (1939 film)
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| Directed by | Marc Sorkin |
| Written by | Lilo Dammert Léo Lania Ákos Tolnay Steve Passeur |
| Produced by | Romain Pinès |
| Starring | Viviane Romance John Lodge Marcel Dalio |
| Cinematography | Michel Kelber |
| Edited by | Louisette Hautecoeur |
| Music by | Maurice Jaubert Paul Dessau |
Production company | Lucia Film |
| Distributed by | Les Distributions Associées |
Release date | 18 February 1939 |
Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
The White Slave (French: L'esclave blanche) is a 1939 French drama film directed by
Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne, while the costumes were by Marcel Escoffier. It is a loose remake of the 1927 German silent film of the same title.[2]
Synopsis
At the beginning of the twentieth century a Frenchwoman marries a
Young Turk
movement.
Cast
- Viviane Romance as Mireille
- John Lodge as Vedad Bey
- Marcel Dalio as Le sultan Soliman
- Sylvie as Safète – la mère de Vedad
- Mila Parély as Tarkine
- Paulette Pax as L'amie de Safète
- Marcel Lupovici as Mourad
- Roger Blin as Maïr
- Odile Pascal as Akilé, la soeur de Mourad
- Joe Alex as Ali
- Jacques Mattler as Un conseiller
- Louise Carletti as Sheyla
- Saturnin Fabre as Djemal Pacha
- Nicolas Amato as Un voyageur
- Jean Brochard as Le chef électricien
- Yvonne Yma as Une Turque dans le train
- Léon Larive as Un fonctionnaire
- Claire Gérard as Une visiteuse
- Odette Talazac as La mère de Soliman
- Gaby André as Une femme du harem
References
Bibliography
- Rentschler, Eric. The Films of G.W. Pabst: An Extraterritorial Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 1990.
- Slavin, David Henry . Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919–1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths. JHU Press, 2001.
External links
- The White Slave at IMDb
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