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Stamboul (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Stamboul' is a 1932 British drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Warwick Ward, Rosita Moreno, Margot Grahame, and Garry Marsh. It was released by the British division of Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter, Hermann Warm and R. Holmes Paul.
Buchowetski also co-directed 'El hombre que asesino' with Fernando Gomis, the Spanish-language version of the film, also released by Paramount.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114084743/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/52539 BFI Database entry]
The film is based on the novel 'L'homme qui assasina' (1906) by Claude Farrre and on a play by Pierre Frondaie.
Premise
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attach falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul (the central part of Constantinople, now known in entirety as Istanbul) in the Ottoman Empire.
Cast
* Warwick Ward as Col Andr de Sevigne
* Rosita Moreno as Baroness von Strick
* Margot Grahame as Countess Elsa Talven
* Henry Hewitt as Baron von Strick
* Garry Marsh as Prince Cernuwitz
* Alan Napier as Bouchier
* Abraham Sofaer as Mahmed Pasha
* Stella Arbenina as Mme. Bouchier
* Annie Esmond as Nurse
* Eric Pavitt as Franz
See also
*'The Right to Love' (1920)
*'The Man Who Murdered' (1931)
References
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