The White Slave (1939 film)

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The White Slave
Directed by Marc Sorkin
Written byLilo 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 byLes Distributions Associées
Release date
18 February 1939
Running time
98 minutes
CountryFrance
Language French

The White Slave (French: L'esclave blanche) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Marc Sorkin and starring Viviane Romance, John Lodge and Marcel Dalio. German director Georg Wilhelm Pabst acted as a supervisor on the production. [1] It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors 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]

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Synopsis

At the beginning of the twentieth century a Frenchwoman marries a westernised Turkish diplomat and travels with him to his homeland with romantic expectations of an Arabian Nights lifestyle. However she is shocked on getting there by the repressive attitude towards woman. Worse her husband falls out of favour with the Sultan, who faces growing dissent from the Young Turk movement.

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References

  1. Rentschler p.229
  2. Slavin p.93-94

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