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The West (1938 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The West' (French: 'L'occident') is a 1938 French drama film directed by Henri Fescourt and starring Charles Vanel, Jos Noguro and Hlne Robert.Kennedy-Karpat p.78 It is a remake of the director's own 1928 silent film of the same title.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou.
Synopsis
The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge.
Cast
See also
*'Eye for Eye' (1918)
References
Bibliography
* Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. 'Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s'. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
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