The White Slave (1939 film) explained

The White Slave
Director:Marc Sorkin
Producer:Romain Pinès
Starring:Viviane Romance
John Lodge
Marcel Dalio
Music:Maurice Jaubert
Paul Dessau
Cinematography:Michel Kelber
Editing:Louisette Hautecoeur
Studio:Lucia Film
Distributor:Les Distributions Associées
Runtime:98 minutes
Country:France
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]

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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Notes and References

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