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Directed by | Marc Allégret |
Written by | Francis de Croisset (novel) Claude-André Puget Jan Lustig |
Starring | Edwige Feuillère Pierre Richard-Willm Betty Daussmond Jacques Copeau |
Cinematography | Jules Kruger |
Edited by | Yvonne Martin |
Music by | Louis Beydts |
Production companies | Régina Film Compagnie La Magie Films |
Distributed by | Tobis Film |
Release date | 1 October 1937 |
Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Woman of Malacca (French: La dame de Malacca) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Richard-Willm and Betty Daussmond. It was based on a 1935 novel by the French writer Francis de Croisset. It was a major success on its initial release. [1]
It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. A separate German-language version Another World was also made.
A young Englishwoman, Audrey Greenwood, marries an army officer to escape her dreary life as a school teacher. Accompanying her husband out for colonial service in Malacca, she soon grows unhappy with her marriage, and falls in love with a local sultan, Prince Selim.
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