''Alone'' (French: ''Sola'') is a 1931 French

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directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and starring

Marie-Louise Damien Marie-Louise Damien (born Louise Marie Damien; 5 December 1889 – 30 January 1978), better known by the stage name Damia, was a French singer and actress. Early life Louise Marie Damien was born on 5 December 1889 to Marie Joséphine Louise (n ...

Henri Rollan Henri Rollan (23 March 1888 – 23 June 1967) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1910 and 1962. Selected filmography * '' De afwezige'' (1913) * '' Les Trois Mousquetaires'' (1921) * '' The Three Masks'' (19 ...

and Ginette Maddie.Knight & Robertson Wojcik p.151 A

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singer is stranded in

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, struggling to raise the funds for her passage back to France. The film is still extant, unlike a number of productions of the era.

Cast

as Sola *

as Jeff * Ginette Maddie as Marianne * Jean-Louis Allibert as Yvon *

Marguerite Moreno Marguerite Moreno (born Lucie Marie Marguerite Monceau; 15 September 1871, Paris - 14 July 1948, Touzac, Lot) was a French stage and film actress. On 12 September 1900, in England, she married the writer Marcel Schwob, whom she had met in 1895 ...

as Ellane *

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as Nadia *

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as Célestin *

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as Auguste *

Habib Benglia Habib Benglia (1895–1960) was an Algerian-born film actor who settled in France.Susan Hayward, ''French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film'', Chicago, Chicago Press University, 2010, p. 209 He was the first French-African act ...

as L'Hindou * Henri Lévêque as Albert *

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as Le docteur *

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as Le comandant * Jean Robert as Alex

References

Bibliography

* Arthur Knight & Pamela Robertson Wojcik. ''Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music''. Duke University Press, 3 December 2001.

External links

* 1931 films French drama films 1931 drama films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Henri Diamant-Berger Films set in Singapore French black-and-white films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub