''The West'' (French: ''L'occident'') is a 1938 French

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directed by

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and starring

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and Hélène 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

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The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the

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for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

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.

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Bibliography

* Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. ''Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s''. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.

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* 1938 films French drama films 1938 drama films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Henri Fescourt Films set in Paris Films set in Casablanca Remakes of French films Sound film remakes of silent films French black-and-white films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub

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