Katia (film)

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Katia
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Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Written by Jean-Jacques Bernard
Jacques Companéez
Produced by Louis d'Hee
Starring Danielle Darrieux
Cinematography Robert Lefebvre
Edited by Roger Mercanton
Music by Wal Berg
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Distributed by Cando-Film (1949) (Austria)
Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn (US)
Release dates
  • 7 November 1938 (1938-11-07)(Paris)
  • 22 December 1939 (1939-12-22)(US)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Katia is a 1938 French historical drama film starring Danielle Darrieux. The movie was directed by Maurice Tourneur, based on novel Princesse Mathe Bibesco by Marthe Bibesco under the pseudonym Lucile Decaux. It tells the love affair of Russian princess and Czar Alexander II.

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It was remade in 1959 with the same title, which starred Romy Schneider.[ citation needed ]

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