''Itto'' is a 1934 French
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Jean Benoît-Lévy (1888–1959) was a French film director and film producer, producer.Andrews p.355
Selected filmography
* ''Heart of Paris'' (1932)
* ''Hélène (film), Hélène'' (1936)
* ''Ballerina (1937 film), Ballerina'' (1937)
* ''Fire i ...
and
Marie Epstein
Marie Epstein (born Marie-Antonine Epstein; 14 August 1899, Warsaw - 24 April 1995, Paris) was an actress, scenarist, film director, and film preservationist. Her career is distinguished by three important collaborations. Throughout the 1920s, sh ...
and starring
Simone Berriau
Simone Berriau (21 July 1896 - 26 February 1984) was a French actress. She appeared in more than ten films from 1933 to 1942.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1896 births
1984 deaths
French film actresses
20th-ce ...
,
Simone Bourday
Simone Bourday (1912–1943) was a French stage and film actress.Crisp p.151
Selected filmography
* ''La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin'' (1929)
* '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929)
* ''The Sweetness of Loving'' (1930)
* '' The Voice ...
and
Hubert Prélier
Hubert is a Germanic masculine given name, from ''hug'' "mind" and ''beraht'' "bright". It also occurs as a surname.
Saint Hubertus or Hubert (c. 656 – 30 May 727) is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians, and metalworkers. ...
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[Kennedy-Karpat p.9] It was shot
on location in
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
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Cast
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Simone Berriau
Simone Berriau (21 July 1896 - 26 February 1984) was a French actress. She appeared in more than ten films from 1933 to 1942.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1896 births
1984 deaths
French film actresses
20th-ce ...
as Itto
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Simone Bourday
Simone Bourday (1912–1943) was a French stage and film actress.Crisp p.151
Selected filmography
* ''La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin'' (1929)
* '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929)
* ''The Sweetness of Loving'' (1930)
* '' The Voice ...
as Françoise
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Hubert Prélier
Hubert is a Germanic masculine given name, from ''hug'' "mind" and ''beraht'' "bright". It also occurs as a surname.
Saint Hubertus or Hubert (c. 656 – 30 May 727) is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians, and metalworkers. ...
as Doctor Darieux
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Pauline Carton
Pauline Carton (4 July 1884 – 17 June 1974) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 190 films between 1907 and 1974.
Filmography
* ''La fille du Boche'' (1915)
* ''Blanchette'' (1921)
* ''La femme de nulle part'' (1922)
* '' ...
as Tante Anna
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Sylvette Fillacier
''Sylvette'' is a large concrete sculpture created by Pablo Picasso and the Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, which was erected in the city of Rotterdam in 1970. It is located on the corner of Westersingel next to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Th ...
as La blédarde
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Moulay Ibrahim as Hamou
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Aisha Fadah as Aisha
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Ben Brick as Miloud
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Maïa Severin as Madame Dumontier
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Gina Yanne as La journaliste
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Mohand Youssef as Le père de Miloud
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Si Saïd as Saïd
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Camille Bert
Camille Bert (1880–1970) was a French actor.
Born Camille Léon Louis Bertrand in Orléans, he died in Paris in 1970.
Selected filmography
* ''Le secret de Rosette Lambert'' (1920)
* ''The Thruster'' (1924)
* ''The Lady of Lebanon (1926 film), ...
as Le colonel
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Roland Caillaux as Lieutenant Jean Dumontier
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Pierre Sarda as L'officier des renseignements
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Dalrès as Le caporal
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Bernard Rédor as L'officier aviateur
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Mériel
Mériel () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department and Île-de-France region of France. Mériel station has rail connections to Persan, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt and Paris.
Population
Notable residents
* Jean Gabin, actor (1904–1976). Gabin spe ...
as Monsieur Dumontier
*
Henri Debain
Henri Debain (3 August 1886 - 15 January 1983) was a French film actor.
He first appeared in '' Le Petit café'' in 1919, and appeared in more than 25 films between 1919 and 1956. He directed three films including ''Mephisto'' in 1931.
Filmogr ...
as Le sergent
See also
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Cinema of Morocco
The history of the cinema of Morocco dates back to "The Moroccan Goatherd" by Louis Lumière in 1897. During the French protectorate, films were produced and directed by French filmmakers, and in 1952, Orson Welles directed his Othello in the h ...
References
Bibliography
*Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1929-1934''. Pygmalion, 1988.
* Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002.
* Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. ''Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s''. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
* Slavin, David Henry. ''Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919–1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths''. JHU Press, 2001.
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1934 films
French drama films
1934 drama films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Jean Benoît-Lévy
French black-and-white films
1930s French films
Films set in Morocco
Films shot in Morocco
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